Political Quotes

“I thank my good friend from Texas for hosting this hour. I actually do think this administration has an energy policy, and it's all about shutting down all of the domestic use of the resources we've been blessed with in this country. It's about cutting our supply, eliminating our domestic supply. When I looked at your chart you had in terms of gas prices reflecting 2009 and 2011, I know at the White House the President is asking the Attorney General to put together a task force and is trying to find the bad guys of who's causing gas prices to be so high right now, which are pushing over $4 a gallon. There's only really one thing that impacts gas prices, and that's supply and demand, and demand around the world is going up. As you really captured nicely in the documentation, Congressman, the problem is that this administration has shut down access to domestic supply, and we're making us more and more foreign- dependent. Right now, with what's happening in Libya, we only get 2 percent of our oil resources from them. Just that 2 percent with what's happening in that country, we're seeing gas prices now push over $4 a gallon. I'd like to contrast that with the shale gas that you talked about because, in Pennsylvania, we are blessed with it. Also, let me claim my heritage. I have the privilege of representing Titusville, Pennsylvania, where Edwin Drake drilled that first well 151 years ago, and we're very proud of that.…”