[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19202]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      WE NEED ENERGY INDEPENDENCE

  (Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, America is threatened by 
four securities: Family security which finds itself hurting to pay for 
gasoline, food and heating costs; job security which sees our jobs 
going overseas, not only for manufacturing, but where other countries 
are drilling for oil, we can only sit back and watch; economic 
security, when we see our trade deficit improving in every area except 
for energy, when we see OPEC spending so much money to buy our national 
debt and $700 billion of our money goes overseas every year; and our 
national security, when we see what other countries do with oil 
dollars, Iran buying missiles, building nuclear weapons, Venezuela 
sending terrorists to attack Colombia, the Saudis paying off al Qaeda, 
and Russians attacking Georgia, threatening Ukraine and Poland.
  We have to have energy independence, and the means to energy 
independence is to drill for our oil and use that money to fund vast 
conservation efforts and innovative fuels so we can get off of oil. We 
have got oil to do that, and the oil is off of our Outer Continental 
Shelf and out in Colorado in the shale oil and out in the Arctic 
shores, and we can't get to it if we put a lock on it and turn the key 
and throw away the key.
  We need energy independence, and this is a means towards the end.

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