Political Quotes

“That is correct. And if we do not up the drilling in this country, because we are only importing a small part from Canada, and then we import 4 or 5 percent of liquid natural gas, but we only have two places, one in Louisiana and I think one in New Jersey, where ships with liquid natural gas can come here. They liquefy it in other countries, bring it here and then put it back into gas form in the pipelines, and it is used, whether in our homes or commercially or business. So we do not really have the options of importing gas like we do oil. You have to have a pipeline, and the only place the potential is up through Canada to ANWR. Now, ANWR is a huge gas supply. The ANWR field has tremendous volumes, but it is going to cost a lot of money and it is going to take years to build a pipeline to get that gas down to us. But the problem we face in this country I do not think a lot of people are looking at. I have been watching it for 3 years as we started hooking up power generation plants. You can talk about an 18, 20, 24 inch high pressure gas line sucking gas out of our system. That heats a lot of homes. This year we had very high home heating prices. Next winter they are going to be much higher, because there is really no solution to the problem.”