Dan Burton: “Briefly I would say that anybody in this body who believes that a lunch would have more influence than a $5,000…”

I just want to follow up the train of thought that you have. These taxes that they want to put on Big Oil, if there are excessive profits made and there is collusion or something like that, if there is criminal behavior, obviously…

We want to get the price of gasoline down and we want to go to new forms of energy. But it is going to take time. And during that time for transition, it is extremely important that we start moving toward energy independence. And a main…

Well, Mr. Volcker, who is now back with this administration, he came in and started ratcheting up the interest rates to slow down the rate of inflation. Interest went up to 21.5 percent. And I had a business then. And we had to close our…

They have twice the amount of oil there that they have in Texas, and I just cannot understand why we're not drilling there.