Roy Blunt: “if I may make a final point. Every other country in the world looks at its natural resources, and the first two words…”

“if I may make a final point. Every other country in the world looks at its natural resources, and the first two words they think of are ``economic advantage'' or ``economic opportunity.'' That is what the Canadians are doing. Only in the United States do we have any significant number of leaders who look at our natural resources, and the first words they think of are ``environmental hazard'' and ``what is the worst thing that could happen?'' And ``what if that happened every day?'' The Canadian Prime Minister was in China just in the last month talking about selling their oil to the Chinese, who want to buy it. That is what the Canadians should be doing. They would prefer to sell it to us. We should buy it. But they are not going to decide that if our most logical partner doesn't want it, we will just let our economy suffer and not do anything with it. Nobody else looks at energy resources that way. We should not either, and we should not expect the Canadians to do that. That pipeline is either going to go south to our refinery or west to the coast, where they will ship that oil to Asia. We should not let that happen. They don't want it to happen. We should not be upset with them if we will not buy it and they decide they are going to benefit from their own resources, as they should.”