Political Quotes

“The education of my colleagues continues. A plan? The administration in violation of the law that requires a 5-year drilling plan on OCS. I was on the MMS 5-year OCS drilling study committee. I know what the law is. The administration needs to create a 5-year plan for drilling offshore on Federal lands. That is a plan. We talked about oil and how we shouldn't import oil. There are all kinds of different oil: heavy and light. Our refineries are set up to take a certain kind of oil. We were called a net exporter when we exceeded the demand in this country. We had a surplus and were able to export it. Net exporter because we are still going to import oil because our refineries are set up to take that kind of oil and not necessarily the oil that is produced here. My friend mentioned our neighbors to the north in Canada producing a lot more oil. They don't have refineries up there to meet their demand. They need to send that oil somewhere to be refined and made into all of the miraculous products that come out of a barrel of hydrocarbon. It doesn't just produce diesel fuel and gasoline. So they have to send that oil somewhere. But the stoppage of the Keystone XL pipeline kept that oil from coming to the United States of America. Guess what, Mr. Chairman? They have got to send it somewhere else. They have got to send it overseas to be refined somewhere. That is the reason that Canada may pay higher prices for gasoline. We have the solution. Bring that oil here.…”