Julie Fedorchak: “It was something I campaigned on. I would give us an ‘A’ on our work so far. We have basically shut the border down.…”

Obviously, there’s more work to do.

Those reforms were driving down the cost of energy substantially, but for the war in Iran, Americans would be enjoying the costs of substantially lower energy prices now.

From the producer’s standpoint, anything we do as a country to incentivize others to come into the market to lower prices takes away the incentive for people to get into that industry here.

That’s one of the main reasons why it’s so important for the U.S. to lead the way in the development of this industry and the regulation of it.