Political Quotes

“home heating oil prices are rising steadily. An immensely cold winter is predicted to come to us in the next several days. Natural gas is becoming scarce. And out in the West we learn that in California there are warnings out to not light the Christmas trees. The people of California are being asked not to turn on their electricity for Christmas. The Secretary of Energy just recently tried to alleviate the severe electric shortage and power shortage of California and asked the other western States north of California and their utilities to furnish electricity elements to California. Senator Domenici yesterday dared us to look at what has happened in California without fear and without trepidation. He says there is a wave of rolling brownouts and blackouts coming from California across the country to us, brownouts and blackouts meaning energy shortages and measures that municipalities and homeowners must take to conserve electricity. This is unacceptable for our country, and it goes to the core of what we have been saying for 8 years now, that we have been traveling along the price of higher fuel and shortages of electricity on the backs of the lack of an energy policy in our country.…”