Dan Sullivan: “we need an energy policy desperately in this country. We needed it 30 years ago. This is an excellent bill. It addresses…”

“we need an energy policy desperately in this country. We needed it 30 years ago. This is an excellent bill. It addresses the energy policy in a very comprehensive way. It addresses oil and gas. It addresses conservation which people over here say it does not, and it does; environmental issues, electrical, hydropower, everything is addressed, nuclear. It is a very comprehensive bill. And we need this for many perspectives, but most importantly passing this very important bill is important for National security issues as well as jobs and economic development. You know, people talk about high gas prices in this country, and people go back to their districts and say that gas is high. Well, one way we can reduce the cost of gasoline for everyone in this country is we expand refining capacity in this country. And we address this in this bill. Right now our refineries are operating at almost maximum capacity. Like our chairman said in the committee, if we added five new refineries today in America, it still would not address the demand that we have. In many instances when we do get oil and gas drilled here domestically, sometimes we have to send that oil to another country to refine it, and we buy it back at a higher value. That is what third world countries do, and we need to stop that. It is very important that we address the ANWR situation, and open ANWR.…”