[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13226]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




     AMERICA CANNOT AFFORD MORE FAILED BUSH-CHENEY ENERGY POLICIES

  (Mr. WILSON of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. WILSON of Ohio. Madam Speaker, there are two people to blame for 
the extremely high increase in gas prices, President Bush and Vice 
President Cheney, two men who came to the White House from the 
executive suites of Big Oil.
  This week, the President proposed a proposal that was literally 
written by the oil industry: Give more public resources to the very 
same oil companies that are raking in record profits and are sitting on 
68 million acres of Federal lands they already have leased.
  The President called for opening the Outer Continental Shelf to 
drilling, even though more than 80 percent of that is already under 
lease at this time. The President reported the same old rhetoric about 
drilling in ANWR, even though his own Energy Department has concluded 
that will bring no solution for the next 20 years. This type of 
rhetoric is what is hurting us and will continue to hurt our country.
  Madam Speaker, America cannot afford any more failed Bush-Cheney 
energy policies.

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