[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3026]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               GAS PRICES

  (Mr. ROGERS of Alabama asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. I want to talk today about gas prices.
  I represent a poor, rural congressional district where, unlike in the 
big cities, you have to have an automobile to get around. In the 10 
years I've been in Congress, I have not had any issue that has upset my 
constituents more, including the wars, than the gas prices we had 3 
years ago. Yet here we are back in the same situation, with the prices 
of $105 for a barrel and $3.75 for a gallon of gas, and nothing has 
been done over the last 3 years by this administration to deal with 
this issue. More recently, the Keystone pipeline, which would have 
helped bring a lot more oil into the marketplace by bringing it down 
from Canada to our refineries on the coast, has been denied by the 
President.
  He needs to be doing some things to help us. He says that people say, 
Drill, drill, drill, and that that won't solve our problem. Well, the 
fact is it might have if we'd started 3 years ago when we had the last 
burst of high gas prices. He's right, it won't help deal with the 
current problem, but this is going to continue to be a perpetual 
problem if he doesn't make some changes. He needs to authorize the 
drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf and in ANWR, and he needs to 
pass the Keystone pipeline.

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