Political Quotes

“Recollection serves me that you guys on that side of the aisle blocked an amendment or a bill that Republicans put up during the Trump administration that actually made this very point, to allow President Trump to buy oil at a low price and refill the SPR. You all said no. You can't make this stuff up. The government should not be in business. The government is here to serve the people, to meet the constitutional responsibilities enumerated in the Constitution of the United States, and I don't see that the government is a business that should make a net profit on anything. Taxpayer dollars go to purchase something as a strategic asset for emergencies, not to be traded as a commodity so that the government can make a profit. I guess you all wanted to make a profit so you could keep spending money--over $31 trillion in debt. The government shouldn't impose price controls at all. That is not what a democratic republic does. If Democrats are so concerned with fiscal oversight of the Department of Energy, they should take a look at the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, which allocated over $400 billion in Federal funding to clean energy. Picking winners and losers in the marketplace, that type of government control over our energy is the exact type of policy that got us here in the first place, that got us to where we are today, why we are even having this debate.…”