On the recordMay 5, 2011
You could have an immediate effect if you would encourage your party's President to change course and start creating jobs. The energy industry would create a million jobs across the country if we opened up the OCS. We've heard the testimony a million jobs if ANWR is opened. A million jobs if the North Slope is opened. What is more, we've also heard from people that know that a dollar out of four is most likely attributable to speculation. The speculators look at what we do. And we make it harder and harder to produce our own energy, the speculation keeps going up. You could turn around a dollar out of four overnight if we showed the world, we're going to use our own energy. This country has been blessed with more natural resources when you put them all together, and this administration and the former majority has done more to put them off-limits. It's time to get back to what the former Speaker said was our moral obligation. You lower energy prices by using more of our own energy, you create jobs, and you bring down the price that is killing the working poor. And that's a moral obligation.
