Joe Barton
Joe Barton
Joe Linus Bartonis a Republican politician, representing Texas's 6th congressional districtin the U.S. House of Representatives since 1985, and a member of the Tea Party Caucus. The district includes Arlington, part of Fort Worth and several rural areas south of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Following the primary defeat of Ralph Hall, Barton became the dean of the Texas Congressional delegation...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth15 September 1949
CountryUnited States of America
Then Hurricane Katrina hit, and energy is back on the agenda big time,
Our country needs more oil refineries because the people who work for a living need gasoline to get to work. These are the people who earn paychecks and buy groceries and pay their bills, including their taxes. That means they use gasoline every day. They need it, and they need it at a price they can afford to pay.
Our Velma Kelly is Jill Kelly - no relation - of Fort Wayne.
Releasing an equivalent amount of oil from the reserve for a short period of time will help keep fuel supplies adequate, not just for the Gulf Coast area, but for all the United States.
I tell my environmental friends that they have won, ... Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is looked at from an environmental perspective.
I think there may be a need at the retail level to make sure we have adequate enforcement tools to prevent pure price gouging,
We need a fresh new approach that will encourage Internet providers to expand and improve broadband networks, spur growth in the technology sector and develop cutting-edge services for consumers,
My cast comes from as far away as Fort Wayne and Toledo; they're willing to make the hour's drive just to be in it.
I think a good case can be made today that some retailers may have taken advantage of the Katrina emergency. If that's true, that is something that needs to be investigated and, in all probability, prosecuted,
I would rather use incentives and car pools and production increases,
We have between 1 to 2 million barrels of day of oil production in the Gulf of Mexico that's been shut down because of the hurricane, ... I think a very good case can be made today that some retailers have taken advantage of that and have begun to gouge the American people.
We have witness after witness that's testified to the staff and answered questions today that they thought they were still being covered,
What you see is not always what you get.
We can be responsible ... or we can throw caution to the wind and basically have the U.S. Treasury spend over $10 (billion) to $12 billion if everybody took advantage of the program.