Hon. George W. Gekas said "I have not been able to predict exactly what would happen. It seems to me that we ought to start a course on energy independence and go to it without respect to what OPEC does. All I am saying is we will have an extra dividend to lower prices almost immediately, but then our domestic drillers will have to be given additional incentive to continue producing; and that may require tax incentive-types of legislation that we would have to put into place along with our energy policy." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

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I have not been able to predict exactly what would happen. It seems to me that we ought to start a course on energy independence and go to it without respect to what OPEC does. All I am saying is we will have an extra dividend to lower prices almost immediately, but then our domestic drillers will have to be given additional incentive to continue producing; and that may require tax incentive-types of legislation that we would have to put into place along with our energy policy.

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Hon. George W. Gekas

Pennsylvania

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