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Are you trying to suggest that during your hearings in those respective States that the people actually said we want more stringent controls on our emissions in Kentucky, and Wyoming, and West Virginia?

So, I'm not sure that anyone is following what you think is happening around the world.

I find that incredible.

Look them in the eye, that coal miner, and say it's fair that you just lost your job because of our regulations.

We have about seven million barrels a day of imports that we depend on.

We are going to have to have an energy policy here that does not make us more dependent on foreign oil.

I would just say that the State of West Virginia would be very interested in partnering up with the Department of Energy for a coal biomass to liquid with carbon capture.

It is hard to go home and explain why we would be exporting when, basically, the prices here can be so volatile.

I support it wholeheartedly. It moves it strategically and also gives the President a chance to use a trigger and basically stop the export if the oil prices spike here and the pump price goes up.

We hope to use it as that strategic reserve, but we keep it around for good reason.

The State of West Virginia, as you know, would be very much interested in using and developing this pilot project.

Sooner or later we are going to have to use the resources we have not to be dependent on foreign oil.

I am wary of proposals that expand the power and the ability of the Federal Government to intervene in the free market.

Guarding against the use of the SPR for political purposes, I think, should be an enduring concern for all of us.

Ladies and gentlemen, we've got to change. $18 trillion of debt and the way we're climbing, and our military is under-funded from the standpoint--or less--or lack of direction.

The definition of 'insanity' is continue to do the same thing and think you'll get a different result.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex.

What I'm understanding, in listening to the testimony, sir, that there's no repercussion whatsoever.