Dan Burton: “Not knowing about the activities of one of the partners, so it is beyond comprehension to me that Mr. Brown would not…”

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…

America is a can-do Nation and we need a can-do Congress. And right now, the Congress, and both the House and the Senate, which is controlled by the other party, they have a we-can't-do, we can't do this, we can't do that. As a result…

Each one of those drilling sites, if they drill and they find oil, it costs up to $2 billion to drill there. And if they're not going to make any money, they're sure not going to do that.

I hope everybody who may be paying attention to this...raising the price of gasoline by taxing these companies is not going to solve the problem.