[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 2]
[House]
[Pages 1564-1565]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




        BRINGING SENSE TO THE ENERGY DEBATE, BRINGING JOBS HOME

  (Mr. WILSON of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. WILSON of Ohio. Mr. Speaker and ladies and gentlemen, I would 
like to talk about the commonsense energy debate that we are going to 
have today in regard to the bill that we are proposing. Being from the 
Midwest and from Ohio, I truly believe that our energy costs in Ohio 
are one of our most significant problems with why we haven't been able 
to do as much business development as we would like to. We have the 
opportunity right now instead of paying royalties to the companies that 
are providing us with our energy, we can now invest in alternatives 
ways of finding resources to be able to

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provide the energy for our people and to stimulate the business growth, 
especially in Ohio and hopefully in America as well.
  It is important to realize that we have the opportunities to burn 
ethanol. I am excited about the fact that certainly in my area we have 
an abundance of coal, and with clean coal technology we can create more 
energy. We have the opportunity now, Mr. Speaker, to look at coal-to-
liquid fuel as an alternative to lessen our dependency on foreign oil. 
I truly believe that this is a move in the right direction, Mr. 
Speaker, and something that will help. I am looking forward to 
resolving the energy problems of our country.

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