Political Quotes

“Around the Great Lakes, this Congress voted not to allow slant drilling under the Great Lakes, yet we are buying gas and oil from Canada who is drilling under our Great Lakes and selling us the product. It does not make much sense. But if natural gas is the new fuel for electricity and we want to keep it reasonable for home heating and we want to keep it reasonable for commerce and reasonable for our manufacturing and industries, we have got to have a greater supply of it. We cannot import natural gas. A lot of people think we import natural gas from Mexico. Actually we buy some from them, but we sell more than we buy, so we are actually an exporter to Mexico. We do buy considerable natural gas from Canada, but about 86 percent of our natural gas that we use in this country comes from America, and our source and supply is dwindling because we as a Congress have locked most of those spots up, and some that are not on there, saying we cannot drill there.”