[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18252]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      WE NEED A NEW ENERGY POLICY

  (Mr. DeFAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, we will adopt a so-called energy policy for 
the United States later today. We are in the beginnings of a 21st 
century energy crisis, skyrocketing prices at the pump, consumers are 
being gouged, growing dependence on foreign oil. And what is the answer 
of the Republican majority and this administration? Let us obligate the 
taxpayers of the United States to borrow $15.4 billion as a gift, a 
needed incentive to the oil industry to go out and produce more.
  At 60 bucks a barrel and $2.40 a gallon and record profits and huge 
piles of cash they do not know what to do with, we need to subsidize 
the oil industry? I do not think so.
  We need a new energy policy that will serve this country and the 
challenges of the 21st century with new technologies, new efficiency, 
and breaking our dependence on foreign oil. Unfortunately, we are 
getting exactly the opposite here today.

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