[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3524]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    DRILLING MORATORIUM IS NONSENSE

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, gasoline is nearly $4 a gallon. 
Meanwhile, the administration seems to have a deliberate crusade 
against the U.S. energy industry and domestic energy independence.
  Even before Steven Chu became Energy Secretary he said: ``Somehow we 
have to figure out a way to boost the price of gasoline to the levels 
in Europe.''
  Well, that plan is working.
  The administration is stonewalling the safe development of a Canadian 
pipeline to my district in southeast Texas that will send crude oil and 
jobs to American refineries. The administration is using the out-of-
control EPA to implement questionable scientific regulations that 
hammer domestic energy capability. This includes the expensive 
regulations of CO2 and the EPA attempt to defy the will of 
Congress by implementing cap-and-trade regulations.
  The offshore drilling moratorium by the administration is nonsense. A 
court ordered the moratorium lifted. Now that same court has held the 
administration in contempt for not in fact lifting that moratorium.
  Each of these is evidence that the administration is at war with 
domestic energy and the will of the American people. Meanwhile, 
gasoline prices are getting near those in Europe.
  And that's just the way it is.

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