What gets me is here Katrina comes along and it breaks up all the offshore drilling rigs, and all of the sudden, before the gas in the East Texas area can reach us, we're already paying the increased prices,

We must see how much of that offshore gas gets back up and how cold the winter is. It's going to be very tight to see whether we have enough natural gas for the winter.

Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I haven't learned enough to dismiss common sense.

When something like an offshore drilling station is located within that boundary of a state, that's 100 percent of royalties that state receives, ... The way it's written up right now is just not fair to states like Louisiana.

Offshore drilling could turn our beaches and coastal waters into an industrial zone. Rather than auction off our valuable coastline to oil and gas companies, Virginia should be leading the way with energy solutions that will sustain our energy needs and our economy far into the future.

When a team gets on a roll, it just seems like all the breaks go your way. We've got to turn it around and start making the breaks go our way.