[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12035]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     WE'VE GOT TO WAKE UP AND DRILL

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Madam Speaker, I was privileged enough to go with a 
number of Congressmen two weeks ago to the Middle East and went to 
Saudi Arabia. We had some great meetings over there. We met with the 
Minister of Petroleum and many of the other people who are directly 
involved with the oil situation, and here is their response to us as we 
complained to them about the high price of gasoline. Now, keep in mind 
America imports 60 percent of its oil. This is what these guys said to 
us: ``You have the nerve and the audacity to come here, all the way to 
Saudi Arabia, to complain about your oil prices when you won't even 
drill yourself, when you won't even build refineries.''
  President Bush was there a month earlier, and they increased the 
capacity to 300 million barrels a day. And we can't even buy it because 
we don't have the refineries. We've got to get our head out of the 
sand.
  China right now, with Cuba, is drilling 45 miles off the coast of 
Florida. We've got to wake up and drill and use our own resources.

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