“I am just thinking how unfair it is of you to quote their own words. It is a low blow to use what ExxonMobil has actually said against them. I mean, that is kind of a cheap shot, don't you think?”

—  Joe Barton

Committee on Energy of Commerce Hearing: Gasoline: Supply, Price, and Specifications https://house.resource.org/109/org.c-span.192444-1.pdf, May 10, 2006 <br class="br">to Representative Anna Eshoo, on her citing ExxonMobil officials saying they don&#x27;t want to build any new refineries in North America

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