03/03/2013
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"Since I've been in Congress, we have used the SPR as an opportunity to offset spending with cut-go or whatever, and that's wrong."
"There is no doubt that demand for oil is much greater now than when the SPR was originally developed."
"I remember the oil shortage in the 1970s and since then we really haven't had a true oil shortage."
"I've felt for a long time that it's been a very sad thing that we have sent so many young Americans to fight what I thought were very unnecessary wars."