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.
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This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil.
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.
Rather than proposing a forward-looking energy initiative, House Republicans continue to push Big Oil's tired old ideas, ideas that will do absolutely nothing to lower gas prices for the American consumer.
Iraq is not about oil.
You can't turn on your television without seeing these advertisements about clean coal, clean tar sands and the claim that there's more jobs associated with fossil fuels than other industries. That's of course not true. But they're hammering that into the voters' heads.
People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'
Across the country, people are willing to tighten their belts and sacrifice. The president should ask the oil industry to do the same.
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.
I don't think we're going to see the price of oil going down in the near future, that's the reality.
The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.
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