On the recordJune 15, 2000
We concur 150 percent that we need to have a national energy policy that includes not only production; it requires conservation, and it requires capacity in various parts of this country for diesel, for home heating oil, for a host of others. Until we have that, we cannot just put our head in the sand and say to the people in the Northeast, well, we will wait for 3 or 4 years before we have this. We need to do this now, otherwise we could be in the same situation we were this past January and February, where prices spiked up 78 cents in 3 weeks. We know that in the Midwest it is happening right now with gasoline. It happens all the time. We need to have the capacity to move in there quickly to level off the marketplace so it does not spike in that way ever again.
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