Joe Barton actually said...

"If we don't have a market in the United States for the crude oil at our refineries, if you can't export it, you keep it in the ground."

"Do we have a ban on the export of corn? No."

"Do we have a ban on the export of coal? No."

"Putting a ban on crude oil exports at that time made some sense, to husband that resource as a strategic commodity."