Political Quotes

“let me just say to the young lady who just spoke in the well, the new Representative, that if you are going to drill you have to have a geological study done that shows that there is oil there. Those leases are 5 to 10 years, and if there is no oil there, they are not going to put up a derrick. On the Continental Shelf, they have to do seismic studies to make sure there is oil down there. If they think there is oil down there, they drill a test well. If there is not enough oil down there, they are not going to build a $2 billion derrick. Those platforms cost as much as $2 billion. Unless it's profitable, they are not going to drill there. They have to drill where they know there is oil. That's why we need to expand beyond the 3 percent of the Continental Shelf we are talking about and get the other 97 percent involved. If we did that and they got those leases, we could become energy independent. Drilling in the ANWR, which is the size of Dulles Airport, is not ecologically dangerous. We should go ahead and drill there and get the oil. We could get 1 to 2 million barrels of oil a day.”