[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10881]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                        WHAT'S IT GOING TO TAKE?

  (Ms. SPEIER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SPEIER. Madam Speaker, I have one question: What's it going to 
take? How many more oil spills do we have to endure before we're going 
to do something decisive about ending our reliance on oil?
  The amount of oil that has been spilled in the gulf since its 
inception is about 60,000 barrels per day we're now finding out, up 
from 1,000 barrels per day. Do you realize that if we had retrofitted 
75,000 homes in this country, it would equal the amount of oil that has 
been spilled into the gulf during this time.
  I say to all of us, it is time to take decisive action. It is time to 
rid ourselves of our dependence on oil. We can do so by embracing the 
Home Star program that the House has already passed. And maybe what we 
should do is ask BP to put into an escrow account $6 billion. And with 
$6 billion, do you know what we can do? We can retrofit over 3 million 
homes in America. And by the way, we can put to work 160,000 Americans.

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