[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12302]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        WHAT ABOUT AMERICAN OIL?

  (Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania. Oil prices are climbing to record 
highs, gasoline is over $4 a gallon and climbing towards $5, food 
prices are up and rising, and family budgets stretch their limits.
  And how do we handle this? We beg OPEC to produce more oil. The 
Saudis say they will call a meeting. Venezuela says they want $200-a-
barrel oil. Foreign speculators say let's hope the market will fall.
  Americans say, what about America? What about American energy? Why 
not explore for the trillions of barrels of America's oil off our 
coast, America's shale oil? Saying ``no'' to Americans is not an energy 
policy. Begging other nations is not an energy policy.
  Americans get it. Congress needs to get it too. American oil, 
American jobs, American control of its own destiny and returning 
America to be the greatest Nation on Earth and not a nation that has 
its hat in its hand saying please help us.

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