Joe Barton: “It is not if this is going to happen again, it is when it is going to happen.”

We are just trying to adopt the SPR to the modern situation.

My Texas pride doesn't need to be hurt by that, is what you are telling me.

It is always good to have hearings like this to try to, through bipartisan basis, get facts on the table.

I am a little bit skeptical if we are doing this simply because we don't like natural gas power, we don't like coal power, we don't like nuclear power, because that would be an added cost that somebody's got to bear.