Lynn A. Westmoreland

And we can get out of the fetal position and start some action. And that's what we need to be doing. And you brought up a great point. Cooking oil, the fat, the grease pots that are there that people are actually going and robbing these…

I just wanted to say that in relation to that, between 2002 and 2007, 52 percent of all the exploration wells were dry, 52 percent of them, of all of them that they drill. So it's not all there.

To my friend Mr. Ryan, you mentioned not being able to use our technology. In the energy bill that we passed in January of 2007, section 526 really limits the government agencies' ability to use fuels that could come from our technology…

These are top exporters of gasoline into the United States in millions of barrels. Now these are exporters to us in gas, not crude oil, in gas. United Kingdom, 147 million barrels a year. That's about a billion gallons; the U.S. Virgin…

Thank you. As we continued listening to my friend and colleague Mr. Ryan talk about the amount of land that is open for drilling, it is only 3 percent of the Outer Continental Shelf. That is only 3 percent of it. There are only 6 percent…

Let me say this, the American people sometimes get confused, just as you spoke about, the bill that was in the Senate. They don't hear all of the things that were in that bill. That's one of the reasons I wanted to make this as simple as I…

This might be a long-term plan, but you have to start some time. There has been a proposal by Senator McCain to give some temporary relief with a gas tax holiday during the summer to allow some people some extra spending money. It is not a…

more smoke and mirrors that we are hearing this morning from the majority party about, oh, there is plenty of land to drill in, the big oil companies just aren't drilling. Let me just straighten that out just a little bit. Ninety-seven…

I would like to quote some figures, Mr. Speaker, for you and for the American people to hear because one of the things, I guess, that is part of this secret plan for our energy is to tax oil companies. Somehow the majority has got in their…

I just wanted to bring up some more points about the Federal lands since that's one of the main things that we're talking about here today is Federal land. The problem is that, and this is the reality, that 97 percent of the Federal…

Right now only 3 percent of the Outer Continental Shelf is leased for oil and natural gas, and only 6 percent of the Bureau of Land Management public lands are leased. So I think that it would be a good opportunity for the gentleman, for…

I also want to emphasize what Congressman Gingrey said about, that this is no more than a back door attempt to shut down this school. It does great work. I have visited there. This school is open to the public 7 days a week. You can go in…

it's interesting to come down here and to listen to the majority party, the Democrats, talk about a new change in direction for our energy policy or something new to do about our troops. News flash: Y'all are in charge. You've got 230-plus…

Thank you, Mr. Shimkus, and thank you for doing this. I am glad to hear all of the discussion today. As Mr. McCotter was just talking about, the Democratic plan, I guess, or their policy, was H.R. 6, which was part of their monument pieces…

I was elected to Congress 4 years ago, and I came up here and you really think you are going to be dealing with some smart people. It took all I could muster up just to graduate from high school. I did attend college for 2 years. But I…

Thank you, Mr. Garrett. This has something to do with the Constitution, something to do with what the intent of our Founding Fathers was. I don't think that they had in mind Senate bill 2739 which just passed the House with 117 dissenting…

I want to read an editorial to the American people, Mr. Speaker, that was printed yesterday in Investors Business Daily: ``Oil Shock. ``When it comes to energy policy, Democrats always talk a good game. But look at their actual record…

Republicans have written a bill that favors corporate America over mainstream America. Sixty dollars for a barrel of oil that breaks the backs and the budgets of mainstream Americans is a scandal. ... I challenge the Democrats to bring…

But while we're talking about that, you know, we need to talk about the one threat that all small business people have come up to me in the last couple of weeks to talk about, and that is the price of fuel. Madam Chairman, I want to tell…

I think that small businesses deserve an answer. I think they deserve to see what this program is. I think they deserve to see what this plan is, what they were promised. The fact that gas at the time that they were told this was $2.06 a…

These skyrocketing gas prices are a reflection of the Republican energy plan. We need a long-term strategy to lower gas prices and meet our energy needs. Yet Republicans passed up a golden opportunity in major energy bills last year…

I think it does put the responsibility, at least partially, back on those local governments to control themselves. But it is for the same reason that the gentleman from New Jersey got up. My constituents also are concerned about the…

I wanted to continue on to read some of these quotes about the outrage that the majority party had about the prices of gas and oil, and now, as to the outrage of the American people because evidently they felt like there could be a change…

I need to continue with some of these quotes, because I think they are pretty interesting as to our energy policy that we have, I guess, or the lack of an energy policy that we have right now. July 25, 2006, Mr. Hoyer, then the Democratic…

you know, it's interesting that we came here to talk about a beach bill, and we're finally getting a chance to talk about some energy because most American families are not going to have the money to drive to the beach this year. We look…