Tim Ryan: “And we're not getting this information, unlike has been proposed in some places that this is all coming from the Sierra…”

“And we're not getting this information, unlike has been proposed in some places that this is all coming from the Sierra Club, that all this information is coming from the League of Conservation Voters or some left-wing, liberal political group that doesn't care about energy and wants us all to move to a commune and then we'll all be fine. This is coming from the Department of Energy. These ANWR statistics are coming from the Department of Energy. And the Department of Energy is the executive branch, which is run by George W. Bush. These are the President's own people telling us from the Energy Information Administration of what exactly the numbers are. We are not making this up. So on one side he comes out and says, ``We need to drill in ANWR. That is a major component of our energy policy.'' And his own energy people are saying, ``In 20 years it will save you 2 cents a gallon.'' Now many of our colleagues here have said, ``We are Americans. This is America.'' Well, the America that I know doesn't say, ``We are going to really do it and save 2 cents a gallon in gas 20 years from now.'' That is not America. That is not America. America is saying, ``We are going to be energy independent.'' The problem with our friends and the disagreement that we have with the President and with our friends in the Republican Party is the basic idea that we can drill our way out of this problem. Because we can't. We have 1.6 percent of the known oil reserves in the world in the United States.”