mr. speaker , what have members been hearing in their districts ?  i will tell members what i have been hearing : there is a constant uproar and anguish about the gas prices across this country .  one of the home builders that i met with earlier this week , it cost him $ 94 to fill up his pickup .  sadly , i do not see that price going down any time soon .  this is a long-term , not a short-term , problem .  worldwide , we consume what we produce .  this country uses 25 percent of the world 's energy , yet we have only 2.5 percent of the world 's energy reserves .  and in fact in alaska , we are getting 50 percent of what we got only 7 years ago .  the energy bill signed in august will help us in the long term , but it will not help us in the short term .  this bill will help us in the long term , not in the short term .  we have heard the arguments .  we have fewer refineries than we had 30 years ago .  we have not built a new refinery in a generation .  we need more , and this bill will bring that about .  we have dozens of boutique fuels , 45 different blends of gasoline to serve this country .  that means we have a different blend for st .  louis than milwaukee than detroit than los angeles than houston than philadelphia than washington .  it is crazy .  this bill is going to reduce that from 45 blends to no more than six or eight .  the bottom line is if we are not happy with $ 3 gas , we need to vote `` yes '' on this bill .  we need to send it to the senate .  i will remind my colleagues that this bill passed by a voice vote after 16 hours of markup , and i applaud the gentleman from texas ( mr. barton )  , my chairman , for making sure we did it in a bipartisan way .  