Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the Biden administration's war on affordable and reliable energy continues. Three weeks ago, the administration announced a cancellation of seven oil and gas leases in the small portion of ANWR, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, that is available for energy exploration and development. It was just the latest move by the Biden administration to stifle conventional energy production. In his State of the Union Address this year, the President acknowledged that ``[w]e're going to need oil for at least another decade . . . and beyond that.'' Let me just repeat that. Again, these are President Biden's own words: We're going to need oil for at least another decade . . . and beyond that. Well, in this case, the President is right. While alternative energy is powering an increasing share of American energy production, we are nowhere near being able to rely exclusively on alternative energy technologies. We are going to need conventional energy for quite a while yet. The best way to get that conventional energy is by developing the United States' abundant domestic resources in an environmentally responsible way. But the President's anti-development strategy seems designed to force us to remain at the mercy of producers like OPEC and to rely on expensive imports from sometimes dangerous or unstable countries and regions.…”