[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7669]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 TACKLING THE NATION'S ENERGY POLICIES

  (Mrs. KELLY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. KELLY. Mr. Speaker, the high gas prices and energy costs that we 
are experiencing now demonstrate more than ever we have to increase the 
urgency of achieving U.S. oil independence from foreign sources of oil. 
Congress needs to work faster to develop new fuel choices and achieve 
fuel savings.
  I am a cosponsor of the Fuel Choices for American Security Act. Our 
legislation initiates a plan to achieve U.S. oil savings of 2.5 million 
barrels per day by 2015. That is the amount of oil we currently import 
from the Middle East every day.
  Our plan is committed to developing alternative energy courses and 
renewable fuels. It will create better market incentives to use the 
resources and technology already available here in America to develop 
new fuel choices and bring them to consumers faster.
  As long as the U.S. dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, 
gas prices will continue to increase as well.
  Looking backward and using high gas prices to launch political 
attacks gives us no solution to the Nation's energy problems. Political 
maneuvers are not an energy policy. Looking forward by passing this 
bipartisan legislation is the correct approach to implementing the 
initiatives we need to tackle the Nation's energy problems. Let us 
commit ourselves to the American consumer and not to politics.

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