On the recordSeptember 28, 2000
Gasoline is going up to $2 a gallon. Home heating oil fuel is going up 50 percent. Diesel fuel is so high we will get a nosebleed. Beam me up. We do not need to open up emergency oil reserves. That helps oil companies and monarchs who can continue to gouge. It is time for Congress to slap huge fines on those companies that gouge the American consumer. But, finally, it is also time to tell those monarchs and dictators from the OPEC countries the next time Saddam Hussein comes calling, dial 911 for the Boy Scouts, because they are on their own. I guarantee in 30 days this thing will be resolved. Madam Speaker, I yield back the fact that America is being gouged as much by American companies as they are by these monarchs and dictators overseas.
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