I want to commend Dr. Burgess for the work that he has done over the last several years.
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.
Mexico is finally freeing up their oil economy, and if they follow through with their constitutional change, you will see a large number of ...
What happens to domestic oil production in the near term, in the mid term, in the long term if we keep the ban in place?
In a free market economy like the United States, there are almost no commodities or products that we have a ban on.
Do we have a ban on the export of movies? I don't think so.
Do we have a ban on the export of peaches? Yes or no?
We have a number of Members on this committee that probably weren't alive when we passed the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975.