Political Quotes

“that is unfortunate. It is particularly unfortunate because everyone knows our leader and everyone on our side has absolutely agreed to offer energy amendments and give the other side an equal number of energy amendments. We are perfectly agreeable to that, and everybody knows that. It is in that context that I bring up another energy amendment, our amendment No. 1997. This has to do with another huge opportunity we have in the United States right here at home; that is, enormous oil resources we can get from western shale. Quoting the Institute for Energy Research: USGS estimates that unconventional U.S. oil shale resources hold 2.6 trillion barrels of oil, with about 1 trillion barrels that are considered recoverable under current economic and technological conditions. These 1 trillion barrels are nearly four times the amount of oil reserves as Saudi Arabia's proven oil reserves. That is the potential we have right here in this country--enormous reserves, available now, recoverable now. So what is the problem? Well, one big problem is the Obama administration has canceled all leases to access this oil shale. There was movement to properly, responsibly access that 1 trillion barrels, but that has been canceled under the Obama administration. My amendment, No.…”