Political Quotes

“My friend and colleague from Arizona is absolutely right. The three of us have traveled together to Ukraine. We have traveled together to Latvia and Lithuania. What we hear everywhere we go is: Please sell us natural gas. Please sell us energy. Please help us undermine what Putin is doing to us. Energy should be used as a geopolitical weapon, and it is the advances in technology in just the last decade that have made all of this possible. The Senators from Arizona and North Dakota are both correct. We are producing more now than ever. They are well aware of that throughout Europe and throughout the Baltics--to the point that Lithuania is even in the middle of acquiring an at-sea platform to change liquefied natural gas into natural gas--to warm it up, if you will, for use--and it is called the Independence. That is the name of this platform. It is to give them independence from Russia. That is what they are investing in, and now they are saying to us: Please send it our way. The technology has changed so much that in 2005 a book came out called ``Beyond Oil,'' and it was sent to every University of Wyoming first-year student coming in. They were invited to read it, and there was a whole section on liquefied natural gas. At the time the technology wasn't developed enough for us to be so blessed in the United States to produce it, so that they were talking about actually building terminals in Louisiana, Texas, to import liquefied natural gas from other places.…”