[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10880]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               WE MUST BREAK OUR ADDICTION TO FOSSIL FUEL

  (Ms. BERKLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. BERKLEY. The horrific crisis and tragedy in the gulf must be a 
wake-up call to America that we must break our addiction to fossil fuel 
and move with all deliberate haste to a renewable energy future or 
America simply will have no future.
  Energy independence is an economic necessity. We can create an entire 
economy based on green jobs. It's not only an environmental necessity. 
Look at the crisis that we have in the gulf with the loss of life and 
the destruction of an ecosystem that will take a lifetime to fix.
  It's a national security imperative. We have to break from our 
reliance on the Saudis and the Venezuelans, the BPs of the world, and 
harness the sun, wind, geothermal, biomass. The State of Nevada can 
become the epicenter of renewable energy. We just need the will to do 
it.
  I ask my colleagues to please join me in a renewable energy future 
for this great country.

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