Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman, who is doing a great job as chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, for yielding. Madam Chair, what should be crystal clear by now is that our friends across the aisle do not have solutions to the energy crisis. For the last 4 years, Democrats have controlled both Chambers of Congress, but in that time, not one single piece of serious legislation was ever introduced which would have lowered the cost of energy. After seeing costs rise for years on end, voters decided that they had had enough and elected Republicans to solve this crisis. In 2019, a gallon of gas cost just over $2. Today, it costs almost $4. The price of groceries has gone up, as the price of energy to ship and keep them cool has gone up as well. Some items have seen as high as a 55 percent increase. What has been done to help ease energy costs? What solutions do my friends across the aisle have? As a result of President Biden's Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the United States pumped $75.8 billion of taxpayer money into unreliable green tech. Besides that, Americans have pumped trillions of both public and private dollars into these industries for decades, but solar and wind combined still only make up 10 percent of American electricity generation.…”