21 Quotes by Johnnie Burton

The price of natural gas is through the roof.

MMS must have a leasing plan in place if Virginia seeks to end the moratorium and encourage offshore oil and gas development.

Of all the platforms that were destroyed, not all of them will be rebuilt, which means we will lose permanently a certain percentage ... we estimate maybe 4 or 5% ... of oil and gas that will not be produced.

There are some very exciting developments taking place here.

We need to remember the primary reason that incentives are given. It's not to make more money, necessarily. It's to make more oil, more gas, because production of fuel for our nation is essential to our economy and essential to our people.

We need to find natural gas and oil in order to bridge the gap between now and the commercial development of renewable energy sources.

We have audited 71 percent of the property on public lands. We look at the value of that production at the lease.

We did not think we needed any more legislation, because we already have incentives, but we obviously did not prevail.

We won't see 90 percent of production hitting market for another three months or maybe year's end.