On the recordJuly 27, 2022
I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania, the chairman of our Freedom Caucus, for allowing me to join tonight. It is the fireman whose solution is to start more fires, quite frankly. You wonder, this President, his administration, is there a devious, malicious intent, or is there just an illiteracy, a failure to recognize basic economic principles, as the gentleman from Arizona was just talking about tonight? Their war that they have declared on fossil fuels, their war that they have declared on the American energy industry, is dishonest and dangerous demonization of an industry that is vital to our economy, vital to our industry, vital to our national security. To inherit a year and a half ago American energy independence for the first time ever and $2 gas prices--I know we talked about the 2020 campaign over and over. Do you like Trump's $2 gas prices, or do you like Obama-Biden's $4 gas prices? Who would have known that in just a year and a half's time, they would be so good at jacking those prices up to $5 a gallon? What is their solution to that? Oh, just go spend 70,000 bucks on your Tesla. The more pain that you experience, said their Transportation Secretary, who knows nothing about transportation, has no experience in transportation, but said: Hey, the more pain you experience, that just means the more benefit that is being enjoyed. So, hey, buy yourself a $70,000 Tesla if you can't afford to put gas in your cars.…





