01/27/2010
https://www.congress.gov...
"Isn't the urgency of this such that a more dramatic push is really in the national interest?"
"we're in two shooting wars in the Middle East, in large measure, because of our dependence on imported petroleum"
"For the better part of 50 or 60 years, our foreign policy had been deeply entwined with oil, in one form or another."
"about half of our substantial military budget goes, one way or another, to protecting our oil trade"