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Comprehensive Energy Plan

Date: Sept. 16, 2008
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Energy Natural Resources


COMPREHENSIVE ENERGY PLAN -- (House of Representatives - September 16, 2008)

Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Speaker, there is a real difference between the Democratic and Republican plans when it comes to energy. The comprehensive Democratic plan is an American-owned, 21st-century energy plan, and the Republican plan is not.

The Democratic plan lowers prices for consumers and protects taxpayers, expands renewable sources of energy, and increases our security by freeing America from the grip of foreign oil. Perhaps this is the problem with the objection to the Democratic plan: it requires Big Oil to pay what it owes taxpayers. It ends subsidies to Big Oil companies. Maybe some people don't like that. And it creates good-paying jobs here in America.

The Republican bill is more of the same old Bush-Cheney, two oilmen in the White House energy policy written by and for the oil companies. It is time to end that policy.


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