[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8415]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              REPLACE IMPORTED OIL WITH DOMESTIC BIOFUELS

  (Mr. WELLER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WELLER. Mr. Speaker, our Nation is addicted to oil, and it is a 
national security issue.
  The fact that two-thirds of the oil that we consume is imported puts 
us at risk. Today left-wing autocrats like Venezuela's Hugo Chavez have 
told us very clearly they plan to use oil as a political weapon against 
the United States.
  There is a reason we have $3 gasoline. It is time that we replace 
imported oil with domestic, homegrown biofuels like ethanol and 
biodiesel.
  Last year's energy bill was a good start, doubling the biofuels that 
we consume from 4 billion to 7.6 billion gallons by the year 2011. That 
is why today there are 26 organizations in Illinois planning to move 
forward to build ethanol plants, five in the district that I represent 
alone. But that only represents 2.5 percent of all the fuel that we 
consume; so we need to do more.
  I urge this House to move forward on an aggressive plan to replace 
imported oil with the homegrown biofuels. The Biofuels Act of 2006 
accomplishes that goal. Let us pass it. Let us move it now.

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