[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16222]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             THE DRIVE ACT

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, in 2004, we spent $103 billion buying oil 
from nondemocratic countries, countries such as Iran, Venezuela and 
Russia, and the list goes on and on. Indeed, we are funding both sides 
in the war on terrorism, because every time we send money to these 
folks, the money winds up in the hands of somebody, some group, who 
doesn't stand for what we stand for and often is overtly anti-American.
  That's why we should pass the DRIVE Act, which I have co-sponsored 
with Democrat Congressman Eliot Engel. The DRIVE Act seeks to reduce 
our oil consumption by 20 percent, which is roughly the amount of oil 
we buy from the Middle East.
  We do this through tax incentives, putting people in hybrids and 
flex-fuel vehicles, getting gas stations to convert to flex-fuel 
stations so that they can sell ethanol and biodiesel and giving a tax 
incentive for automobile manufacturers so that they can work with 
lightweight material to make cars more fuel efficient.
  Please co-sponsor the DRIVE Act.

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