[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 25256]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                WORKING TOWARDS ALTERNATIVE FUEL SOURCES

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Madam Speaker, I wanted to say that while I cannot 
stand filling up my car at $3 a gallon, like anybody else, there is one 
good thing about it, and that is that there are a lot of people out 
there thinking, well, what alternatives are there to fossil fuel 
energy? What other ways can we get fossil fuel out of the ground? What 
other ways can we buy it from other countries? We do not really like 
being 58 percent dependent on the Middle East for fossil fuels.
  So, at $3 a gallon, people have almost daily reminders: What can we 
come up with? Hydrogen-powered cars such as the type General Motors is 
working on, and they had it last week at the Capitol. They will be 
really up and running probably in 5 to 10 years. Very exciting.
  Ethanol. In Brazil, 40 percent of the cars run on ethanol. In 
America, only 3 percent do. There are fuel cells, there is even nuclear 
power. There are all kinds of things, new types of electrical cars that 
we need to be putting money into.
  The Republican Congress has put money and tax credits towards 
research and development so that our universities, our labs, our start-
up enterprises can come up with alternative fuel sources, and I am 
proud that we are moving in the right direction, but we need to do it 
faster.

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