mr. speaker , we need an energy policy desperately in this country .  we needed it 30 years ago .  this is an excellent bill .  it addresses the energy policy in a very comprehensive way .  it addresses oil and gas .  it addresses conservation which people over here say it does not , and it does ; environmental issues , electrical , hydropower , everything is addressed , nuclear .  it is a very comprehensive bill .  and we need this for many perspectives , but most importantly passing this very important bill is important for national security issues as well as jobs and economic development .  you know , people talk about high gas prices in this country , and people go back to their districts and say that gas is high .  well , one way we can reduce the cost of gasoline for everyone in this country is we expand refining capacity in this country .  and we address this in this bill .  right now our refineries are operating at almost maximum capacity .  like our chairman said in the committee , if we added five new refineries today in america , it still would not address the demand that we have .  in many instances when we do get oil and gas drilled here domestically , sometimes we have to send that oil to another country to refine it , and we buy it back at a higher value .  that is what third world countries do , and we need to stop that .  it is very important that we address the anwr situation , and open anwr .  and a lot of the environmentalists will say , we can not do that , it might hurt some species of some animal or insect .  but we need to think of the human species from time to time .  if we open anwr , if you put it in perspective , if it was the size of the ou football field , the area that we are talking about drilling in would be the size of a postage stamp on that football field .  and the beauty of it is , we can produce oil , experts say , at least 2 million barrels a day out of anwr , and that is exactly what we were importing from saddam hussein in iraq before all of this 9/11 happened .  it is asinine that we rely so much on foreign oil , especially in areas around the world that we have carpet-bombed .  it is ridiculous .  so we need to spur domestic production , support this very important comprehensive energy bill that is for jobs and economic development , as well as a national security issue for this country .  i urge my colleagues to support it .  