Louie Gohmert: “I thank my friend from South Carolina (Mr. Duncan), and I do appreciate the hour spent on talking about energy, because…”

“I thank my friend from South Carolina (Mr. Duncan), and I do appreciate the hour spent on talking about energy, because if you hit a big rock in the right way, you just might get oil or gas out of it, and it would bring the price down in no time. I do wish to talk about our southern border, but I was inspired by my friend, Mr. Duncan, and it brought back a history lesson from east Texas where I live. In 1930, a man named Dad Joiner--``Dad'' was not his given name. His parents didn't give it to him. But, anyway, that is what he went by, Dad Joiner. He just knew there had to be oil in east Texas. He tried and he tried and he tried. He ran out of money. He had no more money, and he had the men. He could drill one more well. He thought he knew geology. He thought he had figured out there had to be an east Texas oilfield, and since he knew he could only drill one more time, Dad Joiner set his sights on the one place there had to be oil because he knew if he didn't strike it there--he was broke--he probably would never have another chance to do anything and be broke rest of his life. This big old rig was on wooden skids, and they were dragging it toward the spot where he knew there had to be oil. The people in my district there in east Texas, they are praying people. They were praying people back in the 1920s and the 1930s. The Depression had just begun, and here you had Dad Joiner just sure there had to be oil. Well, one of the skids broke. He didn't have money to fix it.…”