Codi Prachar's Blog – October 2009 Archive (2)

"The September Oil Import numbers have been released and the news is not good. According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the U.S. Department of Energy we imported 357 million barrels of oil in September at a cost of $25 billion. We imported 63 percent of the oil we required in September which is up three percentage points from August’s totals...."

U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill) has become the 59th Member of Congress to sign the Pickens Plan Pledge for energy independence.

Schock signed the pledge during a meeting with Pickens Plan founder, T. Boone Pickens.



Rep. Schock is the youngest member of the U.S. Congress, having been born in 1981. (The Constitution requires that Members of the House have reached the age of 25, Members of the Senate must be at least 30.) Rep. Schock won election to the seat which had previously… Continue