[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 22]
[House]
[Page 30683]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              MIDDLE EAST OIL AND THE SOARING COST OF FUEL

  (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, when the Democrats took over the House, 
the price of oil was $59 a barrel. Today it's $100 a barrel.
  Now, I don't blame that on Democrats, but I have got to say that 
where is your energy bill? Where is your alternative fuels bill? I 
thought that in this green, ``don't leave a footstep'' or whatever it 
is the Speaker has promised that we were all going to be riding 
hybrids. But it has not happened under them.
  I have cosponsored a bipartisan bill with Eliot Engel that does have 
tax credits for buying hybrids, flex-fuel vehicles. It gives the 
automobile companies tax credits for making more of them. It gives the 
gasoline stations money to transfer to be fuel stations so that they 
can sell biodiesel and ethanol and hydrogen, whatever it would take to 
get us off Middle East oil. But the Democrat Party has shown no 
interest in ending our dependency on Middle East oil, and that is a 
national security concern of all Members, and we need to do something 
about it.
  I call on the Speaker to move a serious energy bill that addresses 
the high, soaring cost of fuel.

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