Houston Radio News 740 – Energy Industry Leaders Rail Against Politics

8/18/08

Use Houston summit to call for bi-partisan approach.

He said she said he said-and round and round we go. While Democrats and Republicans in Washington go back and forth on America's energy future, some industry insiders will tell you it's time to get off the carousel.

"We need to come together as a country, it needs to be a bi-partisan issue," said Frederick Smith, the Vice President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for 21st Century Energy.

"We don't need Republicans, Democrats-Different interest groups fighting against each other. We need to come together and form a common sense approach," Smith said immediately after a summit in Houston Monday which focused on energy policy. The words were even tougher from another insider.

"The politics of partisan paralysis, which we are experiencing now, is in my opinion a lack of leadership on both sides-the Democratic side, as well as the Republican side" said former Shell Oil President and Founder of Citizens for Affordable Energy's John Hofmeister. To him, the solution is clear.

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