Political Quotes

“As we recap here as the evening grows short, we have been chatting here awhile about natural gas, the clean fuel, the abundant fuel, the one we have lots of. We are not short on natural gas. We are short because we have locked it up. Much of the Midwest is locked up, and 85 percent of the Continental Shelf has been locked up. To me that is bad public policy. We need to deal with that. We need to have that debate. The mineral mines management have been taking information from the public on what they should do in the next 5-year plan; and 80-some percent of those communicating, and it is thousands and thousands and thousands have been produced in the Outer Continental Shelf. Very strong support for it. In fact, 80-some percent of those from Florida who are very opposed to this, public policy leaders there, were produced, most people know that a natural gas producing oil has never harmed anything. What is interesting, and the gentleman is more from the gulf area, but I am told that after Katrina that one of the fears were by the fishermen that some of these platforms would be removed from the gulf and they would lose their best fishing. I have been told by the people over at mines and management who have to manage all this nationally that every test that has been done, there is more wildlife, there is more aquatic life, there are more fish and creatures around where we produce than where we do not produce. They like the break. They like the shade.…”