Lynn A. Westmoreland: “To the point that you're making, and I think that's what, Madam Speaker, the American people don't understand, the…”

“To the point that you're making, and I think that's what, Madam Speaker, the American people don't understand, the reason the majority is failing to act on our ability to drill in our own lands is that their base wants gas to be $10 a gallon at the pump because they do not want us driving cars, and they want us to be dependent on them. And so they are not doing anything. They are laying in that fetal position in a hunkered-down state because their base does not want this to come down. They don't want us to drill. They don't want us to use the shale-to-oil or coal-to-oil. They don't want us to use the clean coal technology that we have. They don't want us drilling for this natural gas. And this is one of the things that we were just talking about. The gentleman from Pennsylvania mentioned these different organizations. If you receive something in your mailbox about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, you may get some pictures like this. The reality of it is that is a real picture of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge right there. It's a tundra. It's a frozen tundra. It's what it is. I don't even see a tree on it.”