Jack Kingston: “I wanted to add to that point that in Russia, and I was recently in Russia, their pipelines that transport the oil, they…”

“I wanted to add to that point that in Russia, and I was recently in Russia, their pipelines that transport the oil, they actually use it for oil transportation as much as trucks, but they spill the equivalent of an Exxon Valdez-type spill every week just in transporting their oil. Here we are, we could help them through aid programs trying to get these pipelines improved, which would help the environment but also our energy supply, and the gentleman said we have the best, the strictest environmental regulations in the country, and yet our environmental policies, our radical environmental policies, want to continuously pick on America. It is interesting that in 1976, in Louisiana, that is when the last oil refinery was built in the United States of America in 1976. I bet the gentleman was cranking up his eight-track player by the time they opened that one up. In fact, the gentleman's eight-track player was probably already getting dated. The gentleman's slide rule was gone, and he was not driving his Ford Maverick anymore. That is how long ago we are talking about. Now, unfortunately, radical environmental politics, now there are 8,000 environmental groups in the country. They generate something like $3.5 billion a year in terms of checks and revenues to them. The Sierra Club out in the great State of California pays something like $57,000 a month just on rent in San Francisco. That is how big we are talking about.”