Mr. Speaker, there is a lot to say, but 30 seconds is not enough time to get through it all.
The current crisis revolves around an oil shortage and rising costs. The answer is not to get even more oil out of the ground, but to reduce our reliance on it. If the member would stop talking long enough to let me answer in the few seconds I have left, I would tell her that the solution is not to rely even more on oil and suffer through the kinds of price spikes we are seeing now. The solution is to make oil a thing of the past. Economist Paul Krugman says that countries that are less oil-dependent are less affected.