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“Every other country in the world looks at its natural resources and sees them as an economic asset. Too many people in Washington for too long looked at our natural resources and saw them as a potential environmental hazard. Nobody else does that.

It’s a foolish position to take and it’s done a lot to get us into the position of dependency we have now on people who don’t like us. We have to change that. One of the big elements of changing that is looking for our own American energy resources in a significant way. “

— Congressman Roy Blunt (R- MO)

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