03/08/2016
https://www.congress.gov...
"Mr. Newell, yesterday the Department of Energy released a finding stating that the construction of an oil pipeline out of Canada into the United States would reduce our dependence on Middle Eastern oi..."
"We essentially have money buried beneath our own soil, but instead choose to hemorrhage nearly $1 billion a day out of our economy."
"But what you are saying is we don't have a uniform definition as to how we are defining reserves, and that doesn't allow us to do an apples-to-apples comparison. Is that correct?"
"Yes. I mean, in some places, it is a political number."