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It's clear price gouging... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.

There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that.

Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.

We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.

Despite the previous efforts of Congresses, our addiction to foreign oil, as the President stated, is greater today than ever before. That dependency is a threat to our national security, and we must address that threat.

For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.

We shouldn't be so dependent on foreign oil.

But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to pretend that they are doing something meaningful.

People who are running for office mislead the American people by saying that there's a three-point plan or a bumper sticker kind of way of bringing down gasoline prices. The fact of the matter is that nobody can do that. The price of oil is set on the global economy. People who have looked at this closely and hard know that's the case.

We need to face it, as a nation we have a reliance on petroleum.