[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13227]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        DRILL NOTHING CONGRESS--
                                PART II

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Madam Speaker, the Drill Nothing Congress has let another 
week go into the history books, but no progress has been made on 
solving rising gasoline prices. Most Americans are for offshore 
drilling, but the don't-drill-in-America gang says no.
  Why does the anti-American drilling crowd think it is wrong for us to 
drill at home, but it is right for OPEC and the Saudis to drill and 
sell us crude that costs Americans $425 million a day?
  The Drill Nothing Congress says those American oil companies, which 
they seem to despise more than OPEC and dictator Chavez, have enough 
leases on Federal land. The problem with that lack of logic is there is 
no oil on those leases. The land is full of dry holes. It is like 
trying to lease Death Valley to the farmers to grow corn. It won't 
work.
  The don't-drill group thinks American oil companies make too much 
money. Little do they know oil companies are owned by millions of 
middle-class Americans who are called stockholders.
  Open up the Outer Continental Shelf. American oil companies will pay 
millions in lease revenues to taxpayers. Thousands of jobs will be 
created. America needs to take care of America. Drill offshore.
  And that's just the way it is.

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