Dan Crenshaw: “Energy is the most important element of a prosperous society. Nothing else functions without it. Reliable electricity…”

“Energy is the most important element of a prosperous society. Nothing else functions without it. Reliable electricity allows us to work at night, keep our sick and injured on life support, heat our homes in freezing weather, manufacture the materials that we use to build our homes, and powers the systems that allow the public to watch these remarks right here on this House floor. Energy is connected to everything. The price of energy affects the price of everything else, and the world devolves into the Dark Ages without it. This might explain why Republicans think an energy bill should be labeled H.R. 1--because it is our number one priority, as it should be. We have to introduce this bill because, bewilderingly, energy security has been under relentless attack by radical leftists and the Biden administration. They don't believe in energy security. They don't believe in reliable, affordable energy. They seem to think that the only energy worth pursuing is so-called renewables, solar and wind. This is not sound policy or science. This has become a religion, and it has become an irrational pursuit of intermittent, weather-dependent energy sources that take up vast amounts of land, vast amounts of resources to make, and vast amounts of critical minerals to be mined. Still, it doesn't deliver the energy security the American people need. I am not against these things.…”