Bob Bennett: “That point is very well taken.”

I can understand the impulse for a moratorium. I am not at all sure that a blanket moratorium as broad as this one will produce any higher degree of safety than a more targeted kind of thing.

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.

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

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