I would like to state my support for Senate bill 1356, the Veterans Education Improvement Act of 2017.

I opposed both efforts. The world of liquid fuels has changed since then and we produce more oil here, import less and consume less gasoline and emit fewer emissions from oil-based fuels.

It is an immoral tax, we have already paid money on that, and all that.

We are a farm State. We are a rural State, Oklahoma, and in Shattuck I can remember a guy, and, John, he had tears in his eyes, and he was talking about how his farm has been in their family for so many generations and all that, but they…

Either we make it so that companies and investors want to invest here and want to create jobs here, or we have failed.

I am glad that Obama is gone and the war on fossil fuels is officially over, I hope.

I continue to oppose the RFS, which I have done since its creation in 2005.

I have been with this issue probably longer than anyone at this table has, with the whole ethanol issue, and I remember when Al Gore invented it all.

I'm glad to hear you say that your observation is that this Committee has a reputation of getting things done and avoiding some of the unnecessary steps that other bureaucracies do.

Well, I am serious about that. He did it with the idea that this is better for the environment and all that, and I think, Mr. Lewis, if I judge from your statement, it sounds to me like Al Gore was wrong.

The mismanagement of the RFS has hurt every party involved.

I think that is a great asset that you have.