House Transportation Bill Would Deepen Our Oil Dependence

Environment America

Washington, DC — Today, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) announced plans to consider a surface transportation reauthorization bill alongside Rep. John Mica (R-FL), Rep. Doc Hastings (R-WA), and Rep. Steve Stivers (R-OH). Their plan would include a number of proposals to expand oil drilling, while doing nothing to make our transportation infrastructure less dependent on oil.

John Cross, Federal Transportation Advocate with Environment America, issued the following response:

“Now is the time for us to get off oil, but Speaker Boehner’s bill would only deepen our addiction. Our dependence on oil imposes intolerable costs on our environment, our health, and our economy. We need a transformative transportation bill that invests in the projects that move our nation away from oil and toward a brighter, healthier future—not a proposal that tries to drill its way out of this quagmire.”