Tom Tiffany: “On January 20, 2021, President Biden declared war on American energy when he shut down the Keystone XL pipeline. Today…”

“On January 20, 2021, President Biden declared war on American energy when he shut down the Keystone XL pipeline. Today, we begin the process to lower energy costs. This is the first stroke of what I hope are many bills to come forward to get energy costs under control for the American people. Let's go back over the past couple of years of this Congress and what President Biden did. They passed things like the so-called Inflation Reduction Act. They passed a bill called the infrastructure bill. What were those bills really and some of the others from the last Congress? They were the Green New Deal. You, the American public, know now what the Green New Deal will do to you. Let's talk about my district a little bit. Propane, which is a primary heating source for many of us in northern Wisconsin, we paid 80 cents a gallon in the summer of 2020 to fill our tanks. We paid $2 a gallon--2\1/2\ times as much--to heat our homes just a couple of years after the previous administration had left office. Think about the Ford Motor Company, an iconic company here in America. They lost $2 billion on the electric vehicle segment of their business. I can tell you that contractors, loggers, and farmers are not going to drive a Ford Lightning in northern Wisconsin when it is 25 degrees below zero because it does not work. I think about Vilas County, where they were going to apply to repair a road under the infrastructure bill. It would have cost $1.5 million using Federal money.…”