[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2284]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       SAY YES TO DOMESTIC ENERGY

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, when the President took office, 
gasoline cost $1.96. Now it's almost $4 a gallon. Spring breakers in 
Disney World can expect to pay nearly $6 a gallon to fill up their 
individual cars.
  Americans have no choice but to pay the higher price because the 
government is stonewalling a domestic energy policy. Deana from 
Huffman, Texas, put it best:

       I go to work to make money to pay for the gas just to get 
     to work.

  The President's energy policy is ``nothing from below''--nothing from 
below the ground, nothing from below the sea.
  We're the only Nation in the world that places most of our offshore 
territory off limits to oil and gas exploration. Meanwhile, the 
government continues to subsidize failed green energy projects.
  We should be saying yes to all types of American energy: Yes to more 
offshore drilling; yes to ANWR; yes to faster approval of permits; and 
yes to the Keystone XL pipeline.
  Let's make gasoline affordable for Deana and all Americans.
  And that's just the way it is.

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