Coffman Statement on Obama's Energy Speech

Lone Tree, CO, February 23, 2012
(LONE TREE, CO) - U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Aurora, member of the House Natural Resources Committee, issued the following statement regarding President Barack Obama's energy speech today in Florida.

(LONE TREE, CO) -  U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Aurora, member of the House Natural Resources Committee, issued the following statement regarding President Barack Obama's energy speech today in Florida:

“President Obama said there is no ‘silver bullet’ to rising gas prices, but I can think of one: tapping our abundant domestic natural resources. Our total onshore acreage leased on public land is the lowest in decades -- in Colorado we went from 363 oil and gas leases five years ago to 11 today."

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