defiglio. department of energy, june 22, 2011. so my question to you is, here we have rising gas prices, putting a strain on our consumers, on businesses, on the economy, and yet the administration turns down a project that would help us reduce gasoline prices. why is that? >> first, let me say, i'm not aware of this report. so i can get back to you on that, but it is my understanding that, as i tried to explain, that the gasoline prices in the united states are affected by refined capacities and by access to those refiners. the biggest bottleneck was the bottleneck from cushcushing, oklahoma to houston. there was a very large price differential of crude in houston -- in cushing versus in houston. that wa taken care of by the pipeline, the people who invest in pipelines, and as that is being taken care of as we speak, there are numerous pipeline plans for enlarging that pipeline and one pipeline is being reversed so that refined products from houston and louisiana can be then imported to the midwest. another pipeline from chicago

and first thing i want to do is read from a memorandum from car mine defiglio whose assistant secretary for policy analysis at the u.s. department of energy. and in this memo, he specifically talks about the issue that mr. marquee raised and that is this oil coming from canada is going to be ended up exported out of the u.s. and i'm going to read this verbat verbatim. he said this memorandum provides data and analysis about a number of issues. it concludes that refiners in the u.s. will likely consume additional canadian oil sands well in excess of what would be provided by the keystone xl pim line. it also concludes that exports of canadian oil stands from port arthur are highly unlikely. now, when youer that argument that as the president stated in his decision not to make a decision, he said that one of the reasons he was not going to make a decision was that he did not have sufficient information to make a decision. that congress did not give him enough time. well, as i have stated in my opening statement, this pipeline is now under study for 40 months. in the fall of 2011, a supple