09/21/2021
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"Is that not a national security concern if we do not have sufficient domestic refining capacity and are reliant on foreign nations to provide us with critical fuels like gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel..."
"The Department of Energy--our Department of Energy--has said that exporting less than half of the volumes of LNG already approved could increase U.S. prices for American consumers by up to 54 percent."
"We cannot control where this oil or natural gas is going to go. We are a system that allows the--Rex Tillerson to have his hand on the tiller at ExxonMobil to direct where oil and natural gas goes."
"lifting the crude export ban would reduce the investment in the U.S. refining sector by nearly $9 billion over the next decade"