John W. Peterson

As a retailer all my life, that's what a gas company is. They're a retailer. I sold food. They sell gas. And as their business decreases, their profits go down, but their pipeline system, their pumping stations and all of their costs…

Some of the best jobs in America are producing energy. When you buy Luke Oil gasoline down here, that is produced in Russia, and only the person selling it makes money in America. Mr. Pearce can tell you how many people make money because…

They just committed $32 billion to build new plants in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Libya.

Do you realize how long it has been since we have actually done a modern seismographic on the OCS? It has not been done in 40 years. We didn't have good seismographics then. We don't really know, but we know there is a lot out there. If we…

Natural gas is the future of America until we can grow our renewables. I am for wind. I am for solar. I am for biofuels. I am for hydrogen cars. But let me show you how small that is; 86 percent of our energy is fossil fuel; 40 oil, 23…

Fear can be overcome with facts. And hopefully down the road here we will get the facts. At this time I yield 2 minutes to my friend from Pennsylvania (Mr. Sherwood).

I have been having this debate with the Florida delegation and other delegations for some time, and I really appreciate and like all and respect them very much, but I find recently that poll data show me that Floridians are ahead. Over 60…

Let us not confuse medical waste off New Jersey. That was medical waste dumped in the ocean. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Edwards).

I close with the following statement: what this Congress does in opening up production of natural gas and bringing the price down, allowing our industries to compete and our seniors to heat their homes will depend on whether we remain a…

As someone who has been in the business, the gentleman can speak to this, but I often describe a gas well as a 6-inch hole drilled in the ground. A steel pipe is placed in that hole, it is cemented at the bottom, it is cemented at the top…

I offer amendments, and I ask unanimous consent that they be considered en bloc. The Clerk read as follows: Amendments offered by Mr. Peterson of Pennsylvania: Page 53, line 12, insert ``oil'' after ``offshore''. Page 53, line 20, strike…

I personally have no understanding of how a student who qualifies for a Pell Grant will not receive Pell Grants. The gentleman is talking about a number of issues here, but I think he is misleading the American public a bit with that…

When 9/11 hit this country, our airline industry had a crushing blow, and the part of it that is probably hurting the most is the commuter system out there that serves much of rural America. It is vital that we continue the essential air…

No, the reserves I am speaking about are the caverns where we store storage gas. Not reserves. There are a lot of reserves in this country, but a lot of them are under those orange areas where we cannot drill.

We only can import gas from Mexico and Canada. We can import it from ships, but we only have two ports that can take liquefied natural gas, so we are really limited. We are dependent on what we can drill.

There is not ample wells being drilled in this country to continue to hook up power plants to be produced by natural gas, from all of the experts I have talked to.

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 1937, authored by the gentleman from Washington State (Mr. Larsen) will authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct feasibility studies for three Native American tribes in the State of Washington. The purpose of…

The pink snake that we were shown is a fraud. It is an absolute fraud. That map, if kept in context, would have been millions of acres of ANWR covered. A pipeline going from the wells that would be drilled to the existing Alaskan pipeline…

I thank all who participated tonight to talk about energy, an issue that is number one in this country and one that I commend President Bush and Vice President Cheney for having the courage to tackle. It is our future. Energy is what runs…

I think this energy plan is going to diversify us. We are far too dependent. Our largest dependence is 40 percent on oil. I think we need to lower that percentage, because we only have somewhere between 2 and 3 percent of the world's oil…

Economically, it may take a little while, but when a company in California or any State that has a prolonged energy spikes and the rest of the country does not, we have put that company in a noncompetitive position immediately and, in…

The other issue is, I remember rolling brownouts during a winter a few years ago when energy was short in Pennsylvania and it was zero degree weather and the problems that were caused when electric was off just for a few hours. Maybe the…

Well, the energy prices are important ones to ourselves, along with our traveling costs and our home costs. But we pay them again in our education costs, we pay them again in our health care costs. And in business, we pay them again in…

Mineral extraction is not paid for, there is no royalty. It is $3.50 cents an acre under the 1872 mining law. I am glad the gentleman will support a fee on mining. I will have a bill to him in the near future.

I think we will find where we see those bright colors where the prices have been in the last year or two where we had spikes in the central part of the country; the year before in California; two years ago was up the East Coast where truck…