It is my hope that today's hearing will shed more light on important issues associated with exporting LNG and coal.

There is no doubt in my mind that the energy sector will play a huge role in helping to get the American economy back on track.

Your questions have been quite interesting, and the testimony has been informative.

I think our big concern, as you've heard from everybody that's spoken so far is Iran is on the edge of attaining a nuclear weapon.

We cannot allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon.

I think that there may be a time, based upon the demand of liquid transportation fuels right now, and our supply and our renewables that we might be able to export refined product across the world to those in need.

But the caution is that these expansions are market dependent.

They are going to be sending their money to us, which will help across the board in our balance of payment, our trade, on our revenues to our country providing the services, especially in a sequestration.

We had talked before about--I usually bring a poster. I haven't done it this Congress--of coal miners who lost their jobs in the '92 Clean Air Act.

That is what this debate is about, and everyone knows it, and so that is why we need to move forward for jobs and lower costs of energy and the like.

So we are poised as a country to really be in a great position to turn--over my past decade of being here, it is always we are sending our money to the Middle East because they have the energy.

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