[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4175]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    USE ALL WE CAN AND SELL THE REST

  (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, ``We eat all we can and we sell the 
rest.'' That is the slogan for the Blue Bell Creameries in Brenham, 
Texas, that makes the best ice cream in the world. With the U.S. 
overabundance of natural gas, especially in Texas, that should be 
America's foreign energy policy: ``Use all we can and sell the rest.'' 
In fact, we have so much natural gas in the Dakotas, they are flaring 
off gas wells.
  Mr. Speaker, Ukraine has been invaded by the bully bear Putin. 
Ukraine buys 60 percent of its natural gas from Russia. In fact, 
numerous former Soviet republics in Europe are held hostage and rely on 
Russia for natural gas. We should give these nations an option to buy 
our gas, but we can't even start the process until our government 
speeds up the approval of exporting gas.
  Russian aggression can be responded to with an energy policy that 
helps Ukraine and the United States. Meanwhile, the roar of the Russian 
bear threatens to devour more sovereign territory in Ukraine.
  And that's just the way it is.

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