Cynthia Jackson, an aide to U.S. Rep. David Davis, R-1st, of Johnson City, spoke Monday at a luncheon meeting of the Greene County Republican Women about legislation she said the congressman thinks will lead to lower gasoline prices.

Jackson told 36 people who gathered for the luncheon the "top three" concerns she hears from constituents in the First Congressional District that Davis represents are "gas prices, gas prices and gas prices."

She said Davis supports energy bills in the U.S. House of Representatives that would, among other things:

* Allow offshore drilling for domestic oil and natural gas supplies. According to literature distributed by Jackson to those present, the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2008 would "grant states the authority to keep exploration 100 miles from their coastlines, and it would allow states to share in the revenues received";

* Streamline the refinery application process;

* Expand American oil refining capacity on at least three closed military installations;

* Allow the federal government to procure advanced alternative fuels derived from diverse sources like shale, tar sands and coal-to-liquid technology;

* Encourage the use of clean coal-to-liquid technology;

* Remove fuel blend requirements and "onerous government mandates if they contribute to unaffordable gas prices"; and

* Open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to "environmentally sensitive American energy exploration."

Jackson also said a recent Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll showed that 68 percent of Americans support increased domestic energy production.

She also said an American Solutions poll showed that 71 percent of Americans want elected leaders in Washington, D.C. to focus on "increasing the energy supplies of the United States and lowering the cost of gasoline and electricity."

Jackson said the same poll showed only 18 percent want Congress to focus on "combating global warming, also known as climate change, even if it means higher gasoline and electricity prices."