[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 7285]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 SOLVING THE OIL CRISIS BEGINS AT HOME

  (Mr. YOUNG of Alaska asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Thank God for George Bush. He's created the 
hurricanes, the earthquakes and the high price of gas.
  There is only one group responsible for the high price of gas for the 
consumers of America and that's the United States Congress. They have 
done nothing, nothing since 1973 to increase the productivity of fossil 
fuels in the United States, and they still are doing nothing, Mr. and 
Mrs. America. They talk about it. They blame Mr. Bush. That's it. The 
best thing you can do is blame the other guy. The truth of the matter 
is that until we start drilling and until we start liquefying coal, 
until we use the offshore oil we have available, until we use the ANWR 
in Alaska, we're going to pay a lot more.
  The prediction we have now, by the first of next year a barrel of oil 
will be, get this, $180 a barrel, because the consumers abroad in other 
countries are consuming oil at a greater rate than we are. But we sit 
here and say we're going to solve it by putting $800,000 on the dome of 
the Capitol to save, in 200 years, 10 bucks.
  What's wrong with this Congress? And remember, I said ``this 
Congress.'' You haven't done the job. You're not doing the job. Until 
we wake up, Mr. and Mrs. America, and start drilling as we should 
drill, you're going to pay a lot more at that tank. You think about it, 
$200 a barrel 2 years from now, you'd better get a bicycle.

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