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MItt Romney: Town Hall 12/13/07

2008-09-06T00:45:14Z

Mitt Romney
Town Hall
Muscatine, IA 12/13/07

TRANSCRIPT:
QUESTIONER: . . . you just mentioned the fact that we're importing a third of oil . . .

MITT ROMNEY: It's actually 60% of our oil comes from foreign countries and it's a third of our . . . current account defecit . . .

QUESTIONER: . . . I've listened to a number of politicians and the one thing that I never hear is why aren't we developing the oil reserves that we have available to us. Certainly we're seeing some of our . . . adversaries . . . coming in and drilling for oil fairly close to our shores . . . if it isn't economically viable now, when will it be? I just don't understand how we can continue down the path that we're going without exploring some of the resources that we know are available to us.

ROMNEY: You said it well, I can't disagree with you. You know, we've talked for years now about the largest reserve that we're aware of, which is in ANWR, in Alaska, the people of the state of are very anxious to have developed. Time and again, they say, please come in and develop this . . . there's drilling in the outer continental shelf, for me that's very much part of the picture . . . I think that the president has to be not just the commander in chief or the communicator in chief and talk to the American people about the consequences of not developing our resources . . . if you don't want nuclear power and you don't want to drill for oil and you don't want clean burning coal, then what that means is $100 oil, then it's going to be . . .$3 a gallon then $5/gal. then to $8/gal. then $10/gal. and by the way that means it'd be pretty tough living around here. Heating your homes, it's $1500 for a winter, it's going to be $3000 and then $6000, those are the kind of consequences that show people . . . but we have to make those kinds of decisions today. A nuclear power plant doesn't get built in two or three years.

QUESTIONER: Does that mean that you're going to be advocating then that we do drill?

ROMNEY: Absolutely, absolutely. I am going to advocate that we drill for domestic oil on the outer continental shelf and in ANWR, we'll do that in conjunction with states . . . Alaska is the easiest. The people of the state want us to drill there . . . the Democrats are listening to extreme environmentalists who say no. Well, have they thought about the consequences of not developing any additional energy resources? . . . Look at the French. Well, the French are kind of a liberal people as we know . . . 80% of their power comes from nuclear power plants . . .

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