Congressman John Peterson – an American hero!
June 17, 2008
Glenn Beck had Congressman John Peterson on his show again today, a man who refuses to give up on his ideas for broadening our energy independence. He is reintroducing his legislation to Congress in hopes that Americans will wake up and urge their representatives to support the bill (see our Action Items). Here’s what he said on the show:
I decided we need to start this today and that’s what we’ve done. Across the country. And now we’re approaching 70% of the American public who support offshore production of energy and only 18% oppose and 15% are undecided. And I predict that when the rest of that 15% listen to the facts, we’re going to be close to 85% support of energy offshore. Because Americans, you know, what America doesn’t know yet is that natural gas yesterday was $12.93. That’s approaching $13. If that continues to climb in the next month or two, we’ll have a doubling of natural gas costs to heat homes this winter. We’re putting that $12.93 gas in the ground to heat homes because we start in the summer and then we burn it in the winter when it’s cold. And last year at this time it was $6.50 to $7. It wouldn’t take long to figure out we’re soon going to be doubling natural gas prices and when that happens, I don’t know how the middle class and poor in this country are going to drive their car and heat their homes.
This guy is a hero. Read the rest of the transcript here.
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