Peter DeFazio

About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#books #course #crude #crude oil #doing

But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to pretend that they are doing something meaningful. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#because #big #big oil #campaign #doing

Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#buy #deficit #essentially #made #money

Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#foreign #grown #iraq #majority #operating

First off, the crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#commodity #crude #crude oil #every #first

In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#crude oil #increase #margins #oil #over

It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#attacked #bin #hussein #iraq #laden

Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#civil #civil war #essentially #forced #iraq

The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#iraqi #iraqi security #iraqi security forces #security #security forces

The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#act #been #cannot #common #common good