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There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers.

Like the vast majority of my constituents, I continue to be concerned about record profits reported by petroleum companies at a time when consumers are paying record high prices for gasoline.

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

We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil.

There's not going to be any one replacement for oil: we need to have hundreds of solutions to this global issue.

We can't bankrupt Exxon. But we can politically and morally bankrupt them.

We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.

We need to improve our horrible position within the petroleum game by eliminating the EPA and other crippling bureaucracies that have turned the U.S. from the game's biggest winners into its worst losers.

The problem is not the oil, but what they do with the oil. The United States is the biggest spender of oil and of all the planet resources.

The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us.