06/15/2009
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"But once we get through the bureaucratic process, then the litigation starts, and the litigation has no chance of success but it is able to delay the process enough so that we can't salvage any of tha..."
"If we had confined our development to areas of known reserves back in those days, we would have run out of oil."
"Because that is about the only area that you are allowing American enterprise to develop. And that is an outrage."
"This Administration has sharply reduced the acreage available for offshore leasing. It has increased the length of the regulatory process."