OPEC would benefit from ongoing failure by lawmakers to act

America’s national security and our economy would improve if we enact laws in 2010 that will reduce the dependence of U.S. transportation upon oil. Doing so would also reduce transportation’s carbon footprint. There are a number of bipartisan bills with widespread stakeholder support that would achieve all of these goals.

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Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, February 22, 2010