Industry executives said at the time, in March of 2022, that they could easily double up exports of oil and gas under existing pipeline and production capacity, from 300,000 to more than 600,000 incremental barrels of oil equivalent a day.
I guess my question is this: Should we have not, as a country, worked with our closest trading partner and ally to supply them with those incremental barrels, instead of their having to drain the SPR or go to Iran and Venezuela for these incremental barrels?
That's my question.