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…

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…

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…

just to look at a few of the spikes that were regional in the last few years. In 1999, the fuel oil, truck fuel price was, in the East, from about Pennsylvania up to New England and for most of the winter, trucking companies were calling…

Currently, 22 percent of our energy is from coal, and they are predicting it will be 21 percent in the year 2020, that is 19 more years. Oil is currently 40 percent and will decrease only to 39 percent. Natural gas is the growth area. It…

The animals are only there a few months of the year. Back to the other issues, in Penn State they have new research that has been very successful at making jet fuel out of coal. They also get a carbon product that could be used in the…

We are in the technology wave. It is about time to wrap this up. Let us quickly go over the chart down front, America's energy situation. Foreign oil dependence is now 56, and we will be 66 in 10 years. Natural gas prices soared to triple…

America needs more energy. The West needs more electricity. The East will need heating oil this winter, just like it did last year. The entire Nation needs more natural gas. We saw natural gas prices quadruple last winter. We saw seniors…

wholesale electric price controls do not work. What better example of this than California? Leading energy experts have been saying for months that one major reason California is in its current energy mess is because of price controls. Now…

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.

this program has benefited the people of America. Our facilities, we own a third of it, it ought to be accessible. Our facilities ought to be good. Our roads ought to be decent and safe. Our water and sewer facilities ought to be there. We…

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…

Another factor, around 1440, there was 7 degrees of warming temperature. The negative impact was the agricultural belt in this country expanded immensely. They were growing grapes further north than ever grown before. The food basket grew…

The Kyoto treaty, that chart says it all about this country. If the Kyoto protocol was implemented, would it reduce global warming if it were a proven fact? The answer is ``no'' because it would only restrict emissions in our country. It…

I welcome scientific facts, not computer models, but the real facts. That is what we need to deal with. I think it is very important that we do get this language taken out. We have had enough promotion and sales pitch on global warming and…

I think it is pretty outstanding when we have been increasing the efficiency of manufacturing and processing by more than a percent a year. The gentleman talked about 30 percent. I was reading something today that was 40 percent, I do not…

I think the head of our energy policy, as Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney have shared with us, is we have to conserve, we have to use energy efficiently and be more cautious that we are not wasting energy. I think we still have lots of progress we…

we helped fund research that they felt very close to working using ultrasound, one type of ultrasound to clean out the old well bore, the other kind to go out and loosen the oil from the rock crevices and let it flow into the well. They…

I asked the question recently on why the question mark on relicensing hydro. Someone said, remember, these hydro plants, where water runs through a pipe coming out of a dam and turns a turbine, there is no environmental downside, these…

I just talked to my local school district, who paid $2.80 for gas last year. They have now purchased this winter's gas for $5.40. Last year they paid as high as $12 one month because they had not purchased ahead. When people this winter…

the problem facing this country, an energy shortage, may be the most serious problem we have faced in years. The California brownouts are only a symptom of a huge energy shortage that is prevalent in this country. Ten dollar oil and a…

I bring a background of being a small businessman myself. I owned and operated a supermarket for 26 years. I built it from scratch. I right now find that those who say this is about taxes for the rich do not have any idea what they are…

if you want less of something, tax it another way, another time; if you want more of something, do not tax it. Any time we can remove an impediment from businesses succeeding, we ought to be about it. I am going to diverse just for a…

I rise tonight to talk about education. We will hear later tonight from the two presidential candidates a lot about education. We will have two very differing messages. George W. Bush, the Republican candidate, will talk about getting…

Mr. Speaker, this has been one of the most difficult issues I have ever dealt with. Let us just think about it for a moment. For 11 days, Edmund Pope has been in a Russian prison. If my colleagues have not been in a Russian prison, I was…