09/03/2013
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"Americans are desperate for new jobs, and blue-collar workers in our trades have been particularly hard hit by the economic downturn."
"ANWR is the single greatest opportunity for new energy production on federal land and it was specifically set aside for energy production by President Carter and Congress in 1980."
"if you want to create good paying blue-collar jobs right now for people, I can give the oil industry my unequivocal endorsement."
"When you buy a gallon of gas at the pump, you pay a lot more in taxes than the oil company made in profit on that oil."