Neil Abercrombie: “I have been saying both in debate and on the floor and talking to people that we want to reach out to those who say they…”

“I have been saying both in debate and on the floor and talking to people that we want to reach out to those who say they are in opposition. But it is difficult to reach out when you have to listen to the kinds of things that are being said here about revenues and all the rest of it. Let us get something straight here. One hundred percent of nothing is nothing. There are no revenues coming in. All of these figures that are being bandied about as if we are losing something, we are not losing anything except energy independence in this country. Now we have reached out to everybody that we wanted to speak to and who has wanted to be honest with us about what we are talking about here today. We are losing jobs by the thousands. Why do you think that American labor is on our side in this? We are losing our petrochemical industries. We are losing our manufacturing base. We are losing our ability to farm, while rich, elite people in this country that support some of these environmental Taliban organizations are out there with the propaganda that is trying to say that some of us that are trying to get to energy independence are the ones that are causing the difficulty. Well, let me tell you something. We are not going to back off on this, and we are not going to listen to lies about revenue and distortions about revenue. We are going to bring revenue into this country and bring energy independence into this country. We are not backing down, and we are not backing off.”