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Is there too much of an alliance between big oil companies and Republicans
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I want Governor Romney to weigh in as well. There’s a perception, at least among some, that Republicans are — at least the Republican Party — very close to big oil. A lot of Americans are suffering now from the price of gasoline, the high price of gasoline.
What do you say to that — the audience out there who believes that there’s too much of an alliance, if you will, between the big oil companies and Republicans?
MR. ROMNEY: Well, first of all, Rudy Giuliani is right in terms of an Apollo project to get us energy independent, and the effects of that on global warming are positive. It’s a no-regrets policy. It’s a great idea.
Secondly, with regards to big oil, big oil is making a lot of money right now, and I’d like to see them using that money to invest in refineries. Don’t forget that when companies earn profit, that money is supposed to be reinvested in growth. And our refineries are old. Someone said to me — Matt Simons, an investment banker down in Houston, he said our refineries today are rust with paint holding them up. And we need to see these companies, if they’re making that kind of money, reinvest in capital equipment.
But let’s not forget, where the money is being made this year is not just — throughout these years is not just in Exxon and Shell and the major oil companies, it’s in the countries that own this oil. Russia last year took in $500 billion by selling oil. Ahmadinejad, Putin, Chavez — these people are getting rich off of people buying too much oil. And that’s why we have to pursue, as a strategic imperative, energy independence for America. And it takes that Apollo project. It also takes biodiesel, biofuel, ethanol —
MR. BLITZER: Thank you.
MR. ROMNEY: — cellulosic ethanol, nuclear power, more drilling in ANWR. We have to be serious also about efficiency —
MR. BLITZER: Thank you, Governor.
MR. ROMNEY: — and that’s going to allow us to become energy independent.
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