Joe Manchin actually said...

We are going to have to have an energy policy here that does not make us more dependent on foreign oil.

Guarding against the use of the SPR for political purposes, I think, should be an enduring concern for all of us.

It is hard to go home and explain why we would be exporting when, basically, the prices here can be so volatile.

I am wary of proposals that expand the power and the ability of the Federal Government to intervene in the free market.