Angie Craig: “what we are attempting to do for the American people is allow them, their country, and the energy sector of our economy…”

“what we are attempting to do for the American people is allow them, their country, and the energy sector of our economy to get back into the business of producing energy. We may well be faced with some of the highest natural gas prices that any consumer will have paid in the United States this winter. If we have a cold winter, it will be time for those who are paying exorbitant energy bills to ask a fundamental question: Why? Why is the public policy of this country driving up our energy bills? Why is not there a public policy that begins to put this country back into the business of producing energy? Our historic wealth, in large part, has been based on an abundance of high-quality, low-cost energy in all kinds of forms. The Energy Policy Act of 2003 continues that most important economic legacy for this country--to assure that we continue our traditional energy sources but with new technologies and cleaner approaches; that we invest money in new technologies so that the next generation of Americans can have the same abundance of energy that I have had and that my father had before me.”