[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13843]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         HAZY POLITICAL CLIMATE

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the State of Texas is caught in the 
crosshairs of a green movement hostile and detrimental to our energy 
industries. Texas produces 1 million barrels of oil every day, or 20 
percent of the U.S. production. We're also home to refineries that 
produce one-quarter of the country's gasoline and also produce oil 
byproducts for plastics.
  The new cap-and-trade tax will destroy thousands of Texas jobs, and 
the Congressional Budget Office says that the tax on energy won't even 
help the climate. No matter, the taxacrats in Washington want to punish 
red energy State voters by nailing them with the new disastrous tax on 
energy consumption.
  In the name of saving planet Earth, the government barons are trying 
to push us to so-called ``green'' energy sources that don't even exist 
yet. Green energy that will support this country's needs is at least 10 
years away.
  The immediate solution right in front of us is expanding our own oil 
and gas production while we develop these new technologies. That will 
create jobs, keep money in America, and make us less dependent on 
foreign oil. But that logic is lost in the hazy political climate of 
Washington.
  And that's just the way it is.

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