Lisa Murkowski actually said...

I would encourage you--encourage you--to go to Alaska and to hear the people.

It is not hard to foresee a day of reckoning when this will become real for all of us.

I think we have a real problem on our hands as a result of our nation's borderline insidious reliance on mineral imports.

Our foreign dependence is difficult enough, but the concentration of that supply presents additional challenges.