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WASHINGTON - Congressman Henry E. Brown, Jr. (SC), long-time supporter of offshore exploration and the Representative of more than 75% of the coast of South Carolina, joined fellow House Republicans at a press conference today to unveil their American Energy Act. After the event, Brown issued the following statement:
“Over the past months, I have heard an outcry from my coastal constituents as recreational and commercial fishermen, shrimpers and tour boat operators are being hurt with every increase in the price of diesel fuel. A large number of visitors that come to our beaches and historic sites travel by automobile. The daily commute of our residents is growing more expensive. Gas prices have become unaffordable and we must move to increase environmentally responsible domestic energy production.
We can no longer hope that the problem will go away. Our country is blessed with abundant resources. We must view our energy resources as an asset not as a liability. We must take action immediately and vote on this legislation to allow more domestic energy to be produced by Americans, for Americans.”
House Republicans have transformed their ‘all-of-the-above’ energy strategy into this single piece of legislation. The American Energy Act will increase the supply of American-made energy, improve conservation and efficiency and promote new and expanding energy technologies to help lower the price at the pump and reduce America’s increasingly costly and dangerous dependence on foreign sources of energy. The legislation will also make needed investments in the alternative fuels that will power our lives and our economy in the future.
Congressman Brown, a long time supporter of an ‘all-of-the-above’ energy policy, continues to urge his colleagues, Republican and Democrat alike, to join him supporting legislation like the American Energy Act that will lower the price of gas and set our country on a path to less dependence on foreign energy. For more information about solutions to our nation’s energy challenge, visit Congressman Brown’s website: http://brown.house.gov/Issues/energy.html. To view pictures from the press event go to: http://brown.house.gov/list/hearing/sc01_brown/072308americanenergy.shtml.
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