Louie Gohmert: “Energy is a huge problem around the country. My friend from Iowa was talking about the production of oil in Alaska, and…”

“Energy is a huge problem around the country. My friend from Iowa was talking about the production of oil in Alaska, and it's amazing, but so many people were saying back in the days when there was talk of building a pipeline up to Prudhoe Bay, that if that pipeline is built, it will destroy completely the last 2,700 head of caribou that exist in the area, that they just would not be able to exist in that area any longer. Well, the pipeline got built, and, as it turns out, those 2,700 head of caribou found that when the oil, warm, comes out of the ground and goes through the pipeline, the pipeline is warm. We have subsequently found that now, when the caribou want to go on a date with each other, they will invite each other to come to the pipeline. Apparently the pipeline actually makes them a little bit amorous. Now, all these years later, we are up to 30,000 head of caribou. Now, I grew up in Texas, and we used to hear, a few decades ago, that, my goodness, if they start building these deep-water rigs off the coast of Texas, it will destroy fishing in the Gulf of Mexico from now on. That's what we heard. Now, if you want to go fishing, deep-water fishing in the gulf, your best bet is to go out to one of those drilling rigs, the platforms, because they have acted as an artificial reef.”