[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19936]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                          OIL AND FUEL PRICES

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Madam Speaker, gasoline is going up to $2 a gallon. 
Home heating oil fuel is going up 50 percent. Diesel fuel is so high we 
will get a nosebleed.
  Beam me up.
  We do not need to open up emergency oil reserves. That helps oil 
companies and monarchs who can continue to gouge. It is time for 
Congress to slap huge fines on those companies that gouge the American 
consumer.
  But, finally, it is also time to tell those monarchs and dictators 
from the OPEC countries the next time Saddam Hussein comes calling, 
dial 911 for the Boy Scouts, because they are on their own. I guarantee 
in 30 days this thing will be resolved.
  Madam Speaker, I yield back the fact that America is being gouged as 
much by American companies as they are by these monarchs and dictators 
overseas.

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