Alcee Hastings: “I think my good friend knows and doubtless has heard me talk about my opposition to oil drilling in ANWR. What I would…”

“I think my good friend knows and doubtless has heard me talk about my opposition to oil drilling in ANWR. What I would say in response to my friend, if we started drilling in ANWR today, it would be 10 years before a drop of oil would enter into an automobile if that is what we are still using. We need energy conservation. We need renewable energy. We need all of the things that everybody is talking about, and we need to understand that nothing is going to happen in the morning. It is going to take a very long time and an awful lot of sacrifice. And I personally just get tired of people beating up on people here in this body. That is what leads to the partisan rancor. That is not what we are asking for. I believe that we can get out of this problem. They ought to lock all 535 of us up here in this Capitol and require us to work together and require businesses to stop gouging people as they are doing. Now this ain't the energy bill. This is the space bill, and this rule is about space.”