John W. Peterson: “I quickly would like to share my admiration for the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Fawell). I have known him less than 2…”

And those coal plants will all be natural gas plants which will further exacerbate the natural gas prices. Center for Biological Diversity: Oil and gas drilling on public lands has devastating effects and must be stopped. They're winning…

Folks, if we're serious about cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay, we can get affordable energy for America by producing offshore. Every country in the world produces here. We're the only country that doesn't, and we can have $20 billion, which…

If the Democrats win this debate and we don't produce energy--if we use these old statements of 68 million acres and 80 something percent is leased, that is not factual; 2.5 percent of the Outer Continental Shelf is leased, the good spots…

I think there is more to it than that, though. It is local leadership that is part of it, because local leaders had to recognize the program could assist them, and they reached out and adopted it. Many states still haven't.