Political Quotes

“If we are really serious in the Senate about what we are doing in terms of increasing our long-overdue requirement to up our oil resources, our oil production and supply, we know how. We have opportunities from our neighbors to the north in Canada with the Keystone Pipeline. We clearly have opportunities in Alaska from the Outer Continental Shelf, from the Rocky Mountain West. We still import about half of our oil supply and about half of that is from OPEC. One last chart, if I may. Right now, about 47 percent is OPEC; non- OPEC is 53 percent. If we were to add to our mix in this country what we could get from Keystone, which is the middle pie, but look where we would be as a nation. If we were to plus up our activity with domestic production, bring on Keystone, and with our existing resources, our imports from OPEC are reduced to a minimal amount. We talk about North American energy independence, and we truly could be in that position where we are not vulnerable--not vulnerable to the volatility of the markets, not vulnerable to the volatility that comes from OPEC setting the prices as they do, not in a situation where we are spending millions and billions of dollars to import a resource we need but that we have as a nation.…”