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On the recordApril 5, 2000
I as an American citizen am totally embarrassed and humiliated at the thought of having to beg the OPEC countries to produce more, to send us more, to sell us more of their energy product. It is humiliating. I think our whole Nation is humiliated by what has occurred. We have got to reverse this impact and become self-sufficient so that the OPEC countries eventually will come to beg us to sell us more oil, to beg us to buy more oil.
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Hon. George W. Gekas
Pennsylvania

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Addressing U.S. dependence on OPEC and the need for energy self-sufficiency.

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