Written by Sasha Reva
U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm was laughing about high gas prices when asked about the administration’s strategy to reduce the prices.
“[In] Sturgis, Michigan, it is $2.89 a gallon. I guess that’s better than in California,” said Tom Keene from Bloomberg News. “What is the Granholm plan to increase oil production in America?”
“That is hilarious,” Granholm said. She threw her head back as she laughed at a legitimate question about the United States gas prices and oil production. In Granholm’s home state of Michigan, where she served as governor from 2003 to 2011, the average gas price is $3.428, slightly higher than the national average of $3.422. Sturgis actually has one of the lower gas prices and St. Joseph County where Sturgis is has an average price of $3.395.
Rather than say the problem is because of the Biden admin shutting down pipelines and passing new regulations, she believes that it is foreign adversaries fault for refusing to increase output, “Oil is a global market. It is controlled by a cartel. That cartel is called OPEC, and they made a decision yesterday that they were not going to increase beyond what they were already planning.”
From the first day, Biden has launched an aggressive assault on the oil and gas industry, which led to immediate elimination of permits for the pipeline and suspension of new leases on land. A number of new taxes and regulations has caused many on Wall Street to not invest in any new energy projects, “We can’t get capital because they’re putting so much pressure on banks not to lend to us in the name of climate change.” said Kathleen Sgamma, the president of the Denver-based trade group Western Energy Alliance.
Granholm believes that questions about the administration’s power to bring down the gas prices are “hilarious.” Unfortunately, we don’t see anything hilarious. Again and again, we are not getting our questions answered clearly from this administration. Changes need to happen both in personnel and in policy, especially when it comes to our energy policy. If the Biden admin continues along this path, many voters in blue states where gas prices are getting higher and higher could vote Republican out of having no confidence in this administration.
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