Fleming: Obama Needs to Get Serious on Energy Supply

Statement

Congressman John Fleming, M.D. issued the following statement responding to President Obama's, "We need to increase our access to secure energy supplies," comment today.

"Not only is the President deliberately attacking and choking the flow of domestically produced oil with only one belated token deepwater drilling permit, his EPA is attacking hydrofracking necessary for shale natural gas drilling which is further contributing to the high cost of energy in this country. He has a DOE Secretary that says, "somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe,' and a DOI Secretary that, when in the Senate, objected to an amendment opening up off-shore areas to new oil and natural gas drilling when the price of gas reached $10 per-gallon. It's hard to take President Obama serious about anything he says regarding our energy access."

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