Joe Wilson: “it costs $1.60 cents a gallon when I filled up my tank on the corner of Alameda and 4th Street this weekend. Anybody in…”

“it costs $1.60 cents a gallon when I filled up my tank on the corner of Alameda and 4th Street this weekend. Anybody in this country that pays a utility bill or put gas in the tank within the last month knows we have an energy crunch in this country. It is worse in the West, but it affects everybody. I think everybody, most everybody, knows that Band-aids are not answers, and there are not any quick fixes that are going to solve the problems of energy in this country. We need a balanced, long-term approach, no Band-aids, no quick fixes, to give us stability in our energy markets. I think it is too important to do anything but the right thing. That is going to require all of us to work together to do the right thing. We need to start with conservation. We made tremendous progress in this country with conservation in the last 20 years; and we are not going back, and nobody wants to. But we also have to increase the supplies of energy in this country, responsibly explore for energy in nonpark land, and give ourselves a mix of supply. It is only the balanced approach that will give us the energy that we need.”