Devin Nunes: “Mr. Speaker, I had the opportunity over the weekend to meet with several legislators from Mexico. And a couple of the…”

“Mr. Speaker, I had the opportunity over the weekend to meet with several legislators from Mexico. And a couple of the legislators asked me--they were very confused as to why the United States is asking Mexico to produce more oil because one of the legislators said, Well, don't you have more oil in your country than we do? And why don't you use your own oil in your own country? We will gladly sell it to you, especially at $140 a barrel, but we don't understand why your government doesn't allow for your own companies to drill for oil in your own country. Now, if the Mexican legislature has figured that out, you would think that our legislature and our Congress could figure that out. And so if we really want to end our reliance on foreign oil, it's very simple. There's two major ways to do it: You can drill for oil and gas in our own country on the 86 percent of the Federal lands that are off-limits to our use, that's one way; and the second way is to build nuclear power plants. If we don't get serious about those two options, Mr. Speaker, we're going to continue to pay higher prices for gas and oil, and we're also going to continue to pay higher prices for electricity. If we continue to make excuses, as people in this body have done for decades, decades this has been happening, we're going to continue to pay higher prices for fuel.”