The appointed senator from Pontotoc stood atop a stack of lumber in a warehouses and addressed the company's more than 100 employees about the price of fuel. Fuel costs, along with a faltering housing industry, have been cited as one of the chief culprits crippling Mississippi's forestry industry.
Wicker iterated his support for any congressional measure that would call for the country's own oil reservoirs to be tapped, including drilling in Alaska, the Gulf of Mexico and mining oil shale.
"We have great resources in the United States," Wicker told employees. "There's no sense in us going to Saudi Arabia, an unstable country, and begging them to turn on the pipes."
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Posted on Tuesday, June 3, 2008
by The Daily Leader