"I would just like to point out that both the United States Enrichment Corporation and the Southern Company plan to utilize many expensive foreign components."
"Even as American soldiers are fighting and dying to protect oil supplies in the Middle East, he thinks that it's the American Petroleum Institute--or we should really now just call it the World Petrol..."
"The problem is that we already had that conversation here, and the head of the pipeline, the Canadian pipeline, the Keystone pipeline sat here, and I asked him just 3 months ago would he agree that th..."
"So why would we have----"
"No, he said he would not agree to that. The head of the Canadian pipeline said he would not agree to it."
"This is a very important hearing, and because it focuses upon what became a consensus after the first oil embargo, which was that it was critical for the United States to not have American produced oi..."
"My problem is that even with Americans paying an average of $3.38 for a gallon of gasoline, that the large oil companies want to send our resources to foreign countries."
"My goal would be to see it just keep going lower and lower, the percentage of oil that we import."
"I don't think that it is really good for the American Petroleum Institute to say that we should be sending American crude oil abroad."
"I mean, Obama really has embraced 'drill baby, drill.' I mean, he is just incredible."
"Does it make sense right now, Ms. McCarthy, to reduce global warming pollution instead of just trying to adapt later when the human and economic toll of global warming becomes catastrophic?"