well by using existing platforms or even onshore locations you can directionally drill to some of the ten billion barrels that tupper was mentioning without installing any new platforms and i will also mention in closing that the mms made platforms later which is what's been installed in the gulf the reserve number is now forty five billion so even though we've been producing from six thousand offshore platforms for twenty five years we have five times as much reserve and that gets to steve and there's one thing that happens in santa barbara that's much different we have a natural seepage of oil onto the beach and an individual came to my office that was showing me the statistics of the growth of that and what that does to the birds and the environment and the others the ability to take that out where the natural seepage where you can control it where it's coming through to protect the environment from the seepage in the direction of where it's going and you can do that now because of technology in a much more environmentally safe way that you talked about mister zierman in fact the seepage is over a hundred barrels a day so when tupper was talking about the eight hundred barrels over thirty years or whatever the figure was represents about eight days of what mother you recycle i mean you pump it down there and you bring it back is that not correct mister whitsitt we recycle where we can i wouldn't say it's the bulk of the water we're getting better at this all the time but where we can recycle we can recover about forty percent of the water and then blend it with freshwater and  e starting to see technology develop where automobiles buses and fleets are starting to run on natural gas and again i apologize if i'm getting out of your area of expertise but just if you take the btu output or the energy output of a natural gas versus gasoline to power a vehicle do you have an idea or does anybody on the panel have an idea what the cost of a gallon of gasoline if we were using natural gas in vehicles would house house gas system and that technology is out there it's a matter of economics it's a matter of getting the range on the vehicles they are coming and particularly with fleets and i think the market is sorting that  broad kind of general question if you would i noticed in your resume that you actually public policy was something you studied in college let's take a big broad general picture of the energy policy of this country as i look at it now we're promoting an energy policy that's looking to do away with some of your tax credits we're looking at an increased regulatory burden if you were going to concoct an energy policy that was adverse to creating affordable energy for everybody and maybe i shouldn't ask this can you think of something we're not doing to make it worse mister whitsitt it's difficult let me just correct a couple of things that you said and  other industry gets mister whitsitt that question that you asked is a great question because first energy policy should do no harm and it seems like we've got things turned upside down on their head now where we are trying to do things with energy policy that would punish those that are doing the right thing efficiently for the country we are ignoring sources of energy that are safe and secure i'll give you one example that this committee might be interested in and that is when we look at north america we have the most sophisticated gas market in the world and it is relatively insulated from the rest of the world not totally but relatively and the oil market we also have our largest supplier of oil outside the united states is canada and yet we are stalling in putting additional capacity through the keystone xl pipeline from canada to bring more oil into the u s and  it's incomprehensible why we would be doing that again the state department has found the environmental consequences are not great and we can use the energy we need it and again i could go down the list congressman but it really reflects what you just said thank you very much chairman issa all good things must come to an end and in this case mostly it's we borrowed this room so i want to close first of all i want to thank the courage campaign  who came up and gave me a petition with a relatively limited amount of information but an awful lot of people who care about this issue i understand there are some other companies and individuals who brought items today if you'll bring them up before we leave they will all be included in the record additionally if you note our favorite url americanjobcreators com if you go to americanjobcreators com especially for the young people snicker but please go there  consider looking and asking yourself what is standing in the way of job creation we don't predetermine we ask you to tell us what you believe and be specific if you'll do that if you'll join the endless numbers of people who have done that originally it was based on a few letters sent out and then a demand by job creators throughout the country to have an opportunity to tell what they believe is stopping them with that i will ask unanimous consent we leave the committee report open for seven days so that all members can include opening remarks and other extraneous material we will as i said collect information today and through americanjob com i'd like to thank our witnesses you've been very kind with your time i would also suggest that if answers based on our prompting come to you please include those we want to make the record complete this is the first on this particular portion but we will be looking at all aspects of energy selfsufficiency in the days to come so don't be limited in your response and with that the hearing is a