[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13885]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




       INCREASING AMERICAN JOBS AND ENERGY PRODUCTION RESPONSIBLY

  (Mr. BOUSTANY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BOUSTANY. My constituents in southwest Louisiana want solutions 
to the energy crisis.
  On Monday, the Lake Charles American Press summed up what is needed 
in their editorial, something I have advocated for a long time.
  They said, ``The energy campaign should include more exploration, 
more refining capacity, more alternative energy sources, more renewable 
energy, retirement of society's dependency on the internal combustion 
engine, and an increase in conservation.
  ``It should not be demagogued, for this is not a Republican or 
Democrat issue. It is a national issue that will require solutions, not 
insults hurled across the aisles of Congress and back and forth from 
Capitol Hill to the White House.
  Those that feel the pain of higher energy prices and accompanying 
higher prices throughout the marketplace--the poor, those on fixed 
income, even the middle class--are being squeezed.''
  Increasing responsible energy production is one part of the solution. 
We must accompany that with conservation, with greater refining 
capacity and, most importantly, with unleashing individual American 
genius.
  A magic bullet will not lower the price at the pump for American 
families, but increasing American energy production responsibly will 
help, and it will create jobs here at home.

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