It clearly is. This is the time for us to get healthy, and we can get healthy in many, many different ways. And it is going to be across the spectrum, whether it is making our buildings more efficient, our homes more efficient when it comes to energy consumption, our cars more efficient, come up with different fuels, different ways to power this country, we can do those things; and it's just so obvious because it's good for national security, it's good for climate, and it is good for jobs. But let us go back to this thing about they want to drill in ANWR, they want to drill offshore, they want to drill a million places. Well, we know that right now, and I'll put up a chart, that right now oil companies are not drilling 30.6 million acres that they have offshore and 30.5 million acres that they have on shore.
Ed Perlmutter: “It clearly is. This is the time for us to get healthy, and we can get healthy in many, many different ways. And it is…”
On the recordJune 11, 2008
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Discussing energy efficiency and oil drilling during a floor speech.
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