Joe Barton: “It is complete fantasy that this Congress can do anything that would reduce gasoline prices in the very short term.”

It's obvious that, to me, anyway, this program is being abused.

Now, I want to ask Mr. Salo, you have mentioned two principles that legislation that actually works should have. You mentioned flexibility. Does ACE Kids have flexibility?

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.

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