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“Well, I absolutely do. In fact, not only talk about the oil shales of Colorado, but this entire country where we actually are home--the United States is home to six times Saudi Arabia's proven resources because of the potential for oil shale in this country--1.5 trillion barrels of potential oil shale. That's six times Saudi Arabia's proven resources. That's enough energy to power the United States for the next 200 years. The gentleman talked about legislation that we have passed to try to keep jobs. You talked about some of the comments that were made that, well, that won't impact our supply until sometime over the next 10 years. Let me just tell you about one bill that we passed last summer, H.R. 2021, passed with bipartisan support. That bill was focused on a particular project in the Beaufort and Chukchi Sea north of Alaska. In the time that it has taken one company to get a permit for that energy development--an area that's already approved for energy development by this government--it's taken 6 years to get a permit. In the time that it's taken them to try to get that permit--they still don't have it completely done, by the way--but in the time that it took them to get this far, they've drilled over 400 wells around the world, creating jobs around the world, creating energy for other people, creating jobs and resources, economic development for other people, but certainly not in the United States.”