mr. chairman , i thank the gentleman from texas for yielding me this time to speak in favor of this bill , and i thank him for his great leadership to bring this bill to the floor . 
for 6 years now , the president of the united states has been saying that one of our primary failings as a country was to have an energy policy that moved forward . 
for three congresses , our body has responded to that , first with the leadership of the gentleman from texas as chairman of the subcommittee , and now with his leadership as chairman of the full committee , bringing an energy bill to the house floor for three straight congresses . 
what we do here today and tomorrow can be extremely important to solve the problems that we see at the gas pumps today , to solve the problems that we see if you try to buy fertilizer today , to solve the natural gas problems . 
now , it will not solve these problems next week or next month , or even maybe the month after that . 
if , however , we had passed the bill my colleague had brought to the floor 4 years ago , these problems we see today would not be the large problems that we see today . 
and for the leadership of this chairman , the leadership of the chairman of the committee on ways and means , and the leadership of the chairman of the committee on resources , i am grateful . 
i am also grateful to our friends on the other side , led by the gentleman from michigan ( mr. dingell ) xz4001100 . 
they did the hard work they did in the markup . 
while they may not have agreed with all of the final product , certainly many parts of this product benefited from the work they did on this committee . 
one of the things we have done is illustrated here by a map that just shows how many kinds of fuel there are all over the united states . 
we have tried to limit the numbers of those fuels in this bill , and even asked the epa to look to the future and see what that right number is . 
every time you make gasoline less of a commodity and make it more of a specialty item , you increase the cost , reduce the reliability , and the access to gasoline . 
we hope to move away from that . 
we hope to do more things to use conservation and use renewable fuels . 
this is the right step . 
it is after the right time . 
i wish i could say it is the right step at the right time , but , mr. chairman , it is not the fault of our committee or our body . 
we need to move forward now . 
i urge passage of this bill . 
