[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 11970-11971]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        THE CURE FOR PUMP PANIC

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE. Madam Speaker, with all the gloom, doom and despair about 
the high gasoline prices, there is a remedy to this pessimistic pump 
panic. Before we start passing out bicycles to the multitudes or start 
going to Dr. Phil for therapy, we can and should obtain more crude oil 
here in America. Crude oil will still be the driving energy of this 
Nation for the foreseeable future until we find some alternative. And 
we don't need to line the pockets of OPEC and Third World dictators by 
begging them for more crude. We already give them $425 million a day!
  The U.S. Geological Survey has released a report that says the 
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crude'' oil find in the Williston-Bakken Basin is larger than first 
believed. It is enormous. According to the report, it is over 500 
billion barrels, and it is located in the Dakotas. It is 15 times 
larger than the oil in the Alaskan North Slope.
  America needs to take care of America. We need to remove the silly 
restrictions that prohibit drilling. We need to drill in the Badlands 
of the Dakotas; remove the offshore drilling ban; drill in Alaska; and 
we can cure this pump panic disease.
  And that's just the way it is.

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