Bob Bennett: “The Utah Navajos, to be very blunt about it, put very little stock in those assurances.”

We will not only lose the industry, we will lose the skills that go with it.

The more dependent we become on imported oil, the more difficult many of our challenges are.

But just because you have the right to do it does not mean it is the right thing to do.

I would urge you to have conversations with whatever 'elves' within the administration you deal with, over at OMB, because I think that's where the decision was made.