[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12091]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                     A BALANCED APPROACH TO ENERGY

  (Mrs. WILSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. WILSON. Mr. Speaker, it costs $1.60 cents a gallon when I filled 
up my tank on the corner of Alameda and 4th Street this weekend. 
Anybody in this country that pays a utility bill or put gas in the tank 
within the last month knows we have an energy crunch in this country. 
It is worse in the West, but it affects everybody.
  I think everybody, most everybody, knows that Band-aids are not 
answers, and there are not any quick fixes that are going to solve the 
problems of energy in this country. We need a balanced, long-term 
approach, no Band-aids, no quick fixes, to give us stability in our 
energy markets.
  I think it is too important to do anything but the right thing. That 
is going to require all of us to work together to do the right thing. 
We need to start with conservation. We made tremendous progress in this 
country with conservation in the last 20 years; and we are not going 
back, and nobody wants to. But we also have to increase the supplies of 
energy in this country, responsibly explore for energy in nonpark land, 
and give ourselves a mix of supply. It is only the balanced approach 
that will give us the energy that we need.

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