[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 11457-11458]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           SUE MOTHER NATURE?

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, there are alarming events that keep occurring

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regarding crude oil spills that seem to go unnoticed by the 
environmentalists and the media. Off the gulf coast, and even off the 
sacred west coast of California, crude oil spills have become so 
noticeable that scientists can see the sources from satellites. Can you 
believe it? The culprit should be sued and brought to court because 
that is what the environmentalists do to save us from the nasty crude 
oil. The offender is Mother Nature.
  You see, Mr. Speaker, thousands of metric tons a year of crude oil 
naturally seep to the surface in the Gulf of Mexico and off the west 
coast. Mother Nature is the cause of most offshore crude oil spills, 
and this must be stopped. Why don't we just remove all that crude oil 
that is seeping from beneath the ocean? That will eliminate oil from 
coming to the surface. The way to do that is to drill offshore, take 
out all that oil from underneath the ocean, and stop Mother Nature from 
polluting.
  Congress needs to remove the silly offshore drilling restrictions to 
give us more supply. That will help bring down the price of gasoline, 
stop pollution, and we can teach Mother Nature a lesson or two.
  And that's just the way it is.

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