David Schweikert: “We have a bit of the tyranny of the clock, as you know, so I am going to try to do this somewhat rapidly. There has been…”

“We have a bit of the tyranny of the clock, as you know, so I am going to try to do this somewhat rapidly. There has been a lot of speechifying today. I am frustrated because I don't have an elegant or delicate way to say this, but people keep making crap up. Let's actually walk through some basic math so we understand something. Does anyone here have any memory of last fall when a number of us were coming behind these microphones getting ready to talk about the winter that was coming. Do you remember the discussion of about how high the power bills, the heating bills were going to be? It is because fuel prices--hydrocarbon prices--didn't just go up because of the Russian invasion. If you look at the charts, this began functionally when the left took power. It really began in 2018 and really took off when they had unified control. It didn't just happen. As a matter of fact, there is a number of charts out there and futures contracts that were basically saying the prices you are seeing today at the gas pump--they just showed up about 6 months early--that that is actually where we were going because consumption and supply wasn't keeping up because of what we have done to ourselves. You see it already. Do you not remember last October and September crossing $6 on natural gas? It was already coming at us and it was our own fault. How does this craziness happen?…”