New Direction for Energy Independence, National Security, and Consumer Protection Act

NEW DIRECTION FOR ENERGY INDEPENDENCE, NATIONAL SECURITY, AND CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT -- (House of Representatives - August 04, 2007)

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Mr. GILCHREST. I thank the gentlelady for yielding.

Mr. Chairman, what I would like to do is, to my colleagues, and certainly to the Speaker, if anybody else is listening, there is a lot of information out there about climate change. There is a lot of information about how it's going to affect the globe and how it's going to affect the United States.

If there is any book that I have ever read with the written and pictorial word of that is ``Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World,'' Gary Braasch.

What we need to do on this issue is understand a quote given by Norman Cousins who wrote the book 30 years ago, ``Human Options.'' And in that book there is a quote. That quote is, ``Knowledge is the solvent for danger.'' And you put that quote next to another one by Thomas Jefferson, which says, ``ignorance and a free society and a successful society are not compatible.''

What we have here is a study to understand the concept of where human activity is not compatible with eons of nature design and its impact.

Let's learn about that information. Let's vote for this amendment.

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