[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6298]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



            ENVIRONMENTAL EXTREMISTS DRIVING UP ENERGY COSTS

  (Mr. DUNCAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, people all over this Nation are seeing their 
gas prices and utility bills go way up. Well, they can thank the 
environmental extremists, who have stopped or delayed almost every type 
of production in this Nation.
  All over the country, small groups of elitist environmentalists 
protest every time anyone tries to drill for any oil, dig for any coal, 
cut any trees or produce any natural gas. This destroys jobs and drives 
up prices and really hurts the poor and working people the most.
  Most of these environmentalists seem to come from wealthy families, 
and perhaps they do not realize or care how much they are hurting lower 
income people. Their rules and regulations drive small businesses and 
small farms out of business, and thus help the extremely big businesses 
who fund them.
  But unless people want their gas and utility bills to go much, much 
higher, they had better start opposing the left wing socialism that is 
prevalent in much of the environmental movement today.

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