Mike Conaway: “this is not an either/or match. This is not either alternatives or crude oil and natural gas. This is both. The issue is…”

“this is not an either/or match. This is not either alternatives or crude oil and natural gas. This is both. The issue is how do we transition from where we are today to where we all want to get to, and how do we afford that transition. If you simply cut off crude oil as part of that solution today, then you're going to have exactly what we've got: rising gasoline prices, soaring electricity prices, natural gas prices are going to go up, home heating costs are going to go up. And in an ironic twist of fate, the commonsense plan to lower gasoline prices includes being allowed to sue OPEC to increase their production. I'm anxiously awaiting reaction in the OPEC countries to allow OPEC citizens to sue America to force America to produce her own energy. This is not either/or. It is both. Let's turn down the rhetoric and begin to work toward both a current short-term solution as well as a long-term solution all of us embrace.”