I tell my environmental friends that they have won, ... Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is looked at from an environmental perspective. |
I think a good case can be made today that some retailers may have taken advantage of the Katrina emergency. If that's true, that is something that needs to be investigated and, in all probability, prosecuted, |
I think there may be a need at the retail level to make sure we have adequate enforcement tools to prevent pure price gouging, |
I would rather use incentives and car pools and production increases, |
I would submit to you that Medicaid in its current form is already hurting the poor, ... This committee will not stand by and do nothing while Medicaid slowly collapses. |
I would vote against it and I would encourage others to vote against it, |
I'd like to see Exxon Mobil take some of their $10 billion and announce some refinery expansion, |
I'm a free-market guy. I come from an oil state. I am not anti-oil, by any stretch. But I don't want to see people get ripped off just because they're scared and retailers think they can just jack up the price. |
I'm very disappointed to learn that, four years later, we still have a problem with interoperability, |
If I were a dues-paying member of the Jockeys' Guild, ... I'd want some new management. |
If there is a silver lining in this tragic situation, it may be that our country understands how fragile our energy sector is. ... We can't just get our oil and gas from Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and the Gulf of Mexico. We need to diversify our domestic oil resources. |
If there is a silver lining in this, it is that it may finally bring home to the American people how fragile our energy sector is and our energy infrastructure is. |
If you want to see real shortages and a black market, then put price controls back on, |
In 1981, there were 324 operating refineries in the boundaries of the United States. Today there are 148. Do the math. There are a lot of reasons for it, but one of the reasons is the law as it exists today, ... What company's board of directors in its right mind would want to go through this complicated process and tie up billions of dollars for years and years if they weren't certain whether this process would wrap up in a timely fashion? |
Initially, we took the administration policy and put it in the bill just to clarify and give certainty to the industry on what they could and couldn't do, ... But I have agreed to do hearings in committee, and go through the regular process, and bring it to the floor later this year as a stand-alone bill or as a part of another piece of legislation. |