Joe Barton: “The recognition that it is the states rather than the feds that can best regulate their domestic oil and gas…”

If we did that and went to a pure market for ethanol, it would work.

I was in Senate Chamber trying to prevent a hold on H.R. 7217. I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 434. ____________________

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.

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