[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 101 (Tuesday, June 14, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H5495]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      YET ANOTHER TRUCKING CRISIS

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Madam Speaker, as we endure more and more of the Biden-
induced energy crisis in this country, I have to point out another 
aspect of that which is very important that we get a handle on soon. 
Our ability for our trucks to deliver the goods, the products we expect 
to be in the stores, is going to be hampered even more not just in my 
home State of California $7 diesel or $6 in the rest of the country, 
and the ability to get truck drivers, but also, interestingly enough, 
there is a product called diesel exhaust fluid that is part of the 
newer truck engines that is going to run out.
  It is already in short supply. The railroads are having a hard time 
shipping it. It is not even produced enough in this country. We have to 
rely on one important component, urea, that the major exporters of it 
are China, Russia, and Qatar. We are going to run out of the DEF that 
you put in the trucks. The trucks will not run without it because the 
computers will not let the truck run without this fluid, which is a 
component in the diesel exhaust system.
  If we run out of DEF, the trucks can't move, and they will not move 
the products you need, your food, your other supplies to the stores for 
you to purchase. So we have yet another crisis within a crisis if we 
run out of DEF. DEF needs to be produced in this country. We need to 
produce the urea in this country.

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