Jack Kingston: “I was privileged enough to go with a number of Congressmen two weeks ago to the Middle East and went to Saudi Arabia. We…”

“I was privileged enough to go with a number of Congressmen two weeks ago to the Middle East and went to Saudi Arabia. We had some great meetings over there. We met with the Minister of Petroleum and many of the other people who are directly involved with the oil situation, and here is their response to us as we complained to them about the high price of gasoline. Now, keep in mind America imports 60 percent of its oil. This is what these guys said to us: ``You have the nerve and the audacity to come here, all the way to Saudi Arabia, to complain about your oil prices when you won't even drill yourself, when you won't even build refineries.'' President Bush was there a month earlier, and they increased the capacity to 300 million barrels a day. And we can't even buy it because we don't have the refineries. We've got to get our head out of the sand. China right now, with Cuba, is drilling 45 miles off the coast of Florida. We've got to wake up and drill and use our own resources.”