Someone was talking the other day here on the floor that we're drilling twice as many wells and we don't need to drill more. Well, we're drilling in old, tired fields. We're drilling the cracks and crevices that we haven't drilled before…

And if carbon capture and CO<INF>2</INF>, if you have those who believe that's such an evil force, that the CO<INF>2</INF> we breathe out is a poisonous gas, if we put carbon capture and CO<INF>2</INF> payments ahead of affordable…

Well, the good news is within the next 3 to 4 weeks, we will be offering an amendment to the Interior bill that will open up on the offshore--let me put my sign back up, my chart back up here--in part of the gulf, east Atlantic, Pacific…

And that comes from Third World countries, dictatorships, the same type of countries that we're purchasing oil from. But let me tell you, it's not that simple. LNG, and I'm not opposed to it, but when a tanker is loaded with LNG it becomes…

In fairness to those countries, they're producing more and more energy, and we have chosen not to produce very much of our own only in the whole entire fields. And yet we pass a bill so we think we can sue them because they're not…

Thanks for the time. In a couple, 3 weeks we will have the opportunity to fight to open up offshore production of oil and gas, and that alone I think will take some, if we could pass that, House and Senate, have the President sign it, I…

Well, that is something they all have. And I think, in my view, we need to be watching very closely as we elect a President, do they have a bona fide energy policy for America.

I was in a hardware store last month, and they had their coats on. And I said, what's going on? He said, in the spring and the fall season now we don't heat our store because people, working people are coming in to buy hardware and lumber…

I'm delighted today that we're talking about energy. I think it's vital because I want to tell you something; if we don't get a lid on energy prices in America, there will be no level of government with a budget that will balance. The cost…

I rise to talk about the energy issue also. There are some good things in this bill for our farmers. I especially think the dairy provision was well done. Dairy is very important to Pennsylvania. I was in the food business 26 years of my…

On April 10, 2008, let the record show, oil is $110 and rising, natural gas is $10.56 and rising, gasoline and diesel prices at record levels in all our communities. Folks back home are scared. They want us to help them. An amendment I…

I rise today with a deep concern. We, as a country, will be a second-rate nation in the next decade if we don't have an energy policy. America needs an energy policy. We need to have a plan of how we're going to have available, affordable…

I rise today to, I hope, bring some balance to this debate. I was stunned in my office listening to the opening comments that it is going to be a new era in America on energy prices. Americans are struggling to heat their homes. Americans…

I'm not opposed to CAFE. I'm not opposed to fuel efficiency. I'm not opposed to biofuels. But, folks, you are overselling them. We have an energy crisis today, not 5 years from now. OPEC told us last week no more oil, get used to $90 to…

Just yesterday, OPEC told the world that $90 oil is okay and they won't be increasing production. They want $100 oil. They want more. Now, on the surface, Americans will say, Thank God. We have a Democrat energy bill coming to help us as…

Does the energy bill help Americans who are struggling to heat their homes and drive their cars? For affordable energy, the answer is no. Despite claims to the American public that they will put policies in place to achieve energy…

I just find it confounding that last week we were bouncing all over 98, almost 100 one day, and not a word spoken in here about energy. It wasn't a priority. It was not even a discussion on this floor, except for a few of us, in 5-minute…

That's the electric map, and it shows, it's the same as this. But it does prove my point, that coal goes down and gas goes up; it gets bigger. But up here at the top, you have the same thing. There is almost no change because the growth in…

Well, I guess I think the thing we need is we need an energy policy. We need to get serious about energy. Energy, in my view, is the number one challenge of America. I've said this in many speeches; I think it equals terrorism and the…

I rise once again on this House floor to talk about an issue that I think is the most important issue that this Congress should be dealing with and that this administration should be dealing with. Six short years ago, we had $2 natural gas…

I disagreed with the IAs. I look for gas to get bigger and coal to get smaller because of the CO2 issues. Now, let's say they're wrong here, because I'm sure lots of people will disagree with them. Let's say they're 100 percent wrong…

One thing I want to mention, what has happened to these high energy prices? Dow Chemical paid $8 billion for natural gas in 2002, $22 billion in 2006, and they are now building plants all over the world because we can't afford America's…

Yes. Natural gas, I call it America's clean, green energy, no NOx, no SOx, a third of the CO2. It's almost the perfect fuel. Now, a lot of people don't realize what all we do with natural gas, but natural gas is the basic ingredient of…

it's a pleasure to join you this evening and talk about an issue that I think is vital to America's future. We're in the beautiful time of year. My favorite time of year is the fall season, and it's arrived. We have now a week of fall…

Is America ready for the most expensive heating season that we may have ever faced? Yes, all of the last week, the first week of fall, we have had $82 oil. In fact, at the close today it was just 12 cents, it would have been $83 oil. I…