Pete Domenici: “Doubled in 1 year. Is that right? Doubled. Now, there is nobody asking for an antitrust evaluation, that somebody gypped…”

“Doubled in 1 year. Is that right? Doubled. Now, there is nobody asking for an antitrust evaluation, that somebody gypped them. These companies just put out the reality. A big portion of fertilizer is natural gas or the products therefrom. We can do something about natural gas. We do not have to sit around saying the President ought to do it. We ought to do it. Shame on us. It is right there in this Energy bill. One, do you know where a lot of natural gas is? It is ours. Alaska. This is not ANWR. This not an anti-environmentalist issue. We ought to produce it. But it does not do any good to produce it because you have to use it. So you have to bring it all the way from Alaska down here and use it. What does the Energy bill say? It says we are going to help make that happen. In fact, the contracts to start the drilling and start the pipeline to bring it down here will start within a very short period of time after we get an Energy bill. What will that be? It will be that three major companies will begin the exploration and development of natural gas, and a pipeline to bring it into America and right into Chicago, IL.”