Randy Neugebauer: “Every day America gets up and writes a check for $1 billion-plus to buy enough energy to run this country for 1 day.…”

“Every day America gets up and writes a check for $1 billion-plus to buy enough energy to run this country for 1 day. What does that mean? That means that it takes $365 billion currently for America to buy enough energy just to run our country on an annual basis, $1 billion every day. And do you know what? Unfortunately, some of that money is going to some folks that aren't all that friendly to the American people. One of those people is Hugo Chavez. I want to read you what Hugo Chavez thinks about America. He said, ``What we do regarding the imperialist power of the United States, we have no choice but to unite. We use oil in our war against neo-liberalism.'' He also said, ``We have invaded the United States, but with our oil.'' So every day as the American people go to the pumps all across America, what I want them to visualize is that every day we write Hugo Chavez, who calls us imperialists, a $170 million check. That is $62 billion a year. What would happen if we could invest $1 billion a day in America developing America's energy resources, creating jobs for Americans?”