[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 10200]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                         EXPAND OIL PRODUCTION

  (Mr. McCRERY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. McCRERY. Mr. Speaker, I was driving my 14-year-old son to school 
this morning, listening to the radio, and it mentioned that the price 
of oil had increased to over $130 a barrel. My son said, Dad, why don't 
we just tell OPEC to produce more oil? I thought about it and I said, 
Well, son, as a matter of fact, President Bush was over in Saudi Arabia 
the other day and asked if Saudi Arabia would increase its output.
  But I suspect that the leaders of OPEC might turn that question 
around on the United States and say, Why doesn't the United States 
increase its output of oil?
  The answer is Democrats have blocked every commonsense effort to 
expand production in this country for years now, and it's time for that 
opposition to stop and face reality. We need a balanced energy program 
in this country, one that recognizes that for the immediate future we 
are going to need oil and gas, and, yes, we need to develop alternative 
fuel sources as well. But you can't do just one. You have to do both.

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