Press Releases
Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami
202-226-7616
05/14/2007
Pelosi: President’s Executive Order on Energy Will Do Nothing to Promote Energy Independence
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on an executive order on energy independence that President Bush’s announced this afternoon:
“The President’s announcement today is one more in a long series of pronouncements claiming to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Yet after six years of failed energy policies that have favored Big Oil, the American people are still left with record gas prices and record dependence on foreign oil.
“It appears that the President wants to run out the clock to the end of his term without addressing our energy needs, because the executive order will do nothing to promote energy independence. Instead, it is clearly designed to bog down the Environmental Protection Agency in a bureaucratic interagency process that will ensure that no steps are taken to regulate greenhouse gases from motor vehicles.
“Here in the House, we are working to develop legislation that will reduce energy dependence and global warming emissions; we will introduce a package of initiatives that will make this July 4th Energy Independence Day. If the President is serious about reducing global warming emissions, he should engage with the Congress on a mandatory economy-wide approach to reducing greenhouse gas pollution. The House stands ready to work with the President toward a meaningful energy policy that reduces our dependence on foreign oil, lowers the price of gas at the pump, and prevents global warming.”