Clyburn on Comprehensive Energy Bill for the 21st Century
Friday, September 12, 2008
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WASHINGTON, DC—House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn today commented on comprehensive energy legislation announced by Democratic leadership this week.
“This week the Democratic Caucus produced a home-grown, American-owned energy policy for the 21st century. This is the legislation America has been waiting for, laying out a smorgasbord of resources to address our energy challenges—it protects taxpayers and addresses high gas prices; expands domestic drilling offshore and on land; expands renewable sources of energy; reduces our dependence on foreign oil and strengthens our national security; requires Big Oil to pay what it owes American taxpayers and ends subsidies to Big Oil, denying them the ability to double-dip; and, most importantly, creates good paying jobs here at home.
“’Drill baby drill,’ ‘drill here, drill now,’ ‘drill only’—are not solutions; they are campaign slogans. The Republican Drill-only plan written-by and -for Big Oil, amounts to nothing more than a methadone treatment—it still leaves us addicted to foreign oil and continues to line the pockets of the oil companies. Americans want solutions, not political mud-slinging.”
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