Joseph Knollenberg: “when it comes to energy prices and energy policy, the Clinton-Gore administration has failed the American people.…”

“when it comes to energy prices and energy policy, the Clinton-Gore administration has failed the American people. National gas and crude oil prices are at record highs. It is the American people who bear the brunt of the administration's failures on their policies. The administration has prevented exploration of our largest domestic reserves along the coasts and in Alaska. They have strangled the capacity of American refineries with needless regulations to satisfy the goals of their extreme left wing. They have totally ignored and stifled the significant contributions of clean coal, hydroelectric and nuclear power. The Vice President even cast a deciding vote to increase gasoline taxes on consumers, directly in line with his outrageous book, Earth in the Balance. Now just a few weeks before the election, the Clinton-Gore administration reverses itself and risks the national energy security by releasing oil from our strategic petroleum reserves. I urge the administration to stop the politics and provide a real and effective energy policy for the American people.”