[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 12171-12172]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              ENERGY PLAN

  (Mr. TERRY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TERRY. Mr. Speaker, I had a constituent come up to me over the 
weekend and say Congress has no energy plan. I corrected that person. 
The Democrats' leadership is no energy.
  Just in the last few months, Congress has voted under their 
leadership to take shale from Colorado and Wyoming off limits for 
extracting the oil. Last week coal-to-liquid for aviation fuel was 
banned. The Air Force is not allowed to enter into a long-term contract 
to buy that type of synthetic fuel. We are going backwards.
  The reality is if we bring all of our resources together, yes, 
conservation, yes, alternative fuels, and open up the resources that we 
have right here in America offshore where there is a moratorium that 
Congress can lift, a moratorium that was imposed by Congress on shale 
oil that can be lifted by Congress, and in Alaska where Congress can 
lift that moratorium, if we combine all of those resources, we can be 
free of OPEC. It is time for a real energy policy where we free our 
resources for American-made energy.

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