Sen Hawley vs. Sec. of Energy

 Red States:

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Granholm denied that the Biden policies were contributing to the prices, and Hawley laid out what Biden had done in just his first few days in office.

“From January to August, the price of gasoline was up over 30 percent in my state alone,” he reiterated. “It has been a continuous upward tick since then, and here’s what your president did when he first came to office. He immediately reentered the Paris Climate Accord, he canceled the Keystone Pipeline, he halted leasing programs in ANWR, he issued a 60-day halt on all new oil and gas leases and drilling permits on federal lands and waters — that’s nationwide, that accounts, by the way, for 25 percent of U.S. oil production — he directed federal agencies to eliminate all supports for fossil fuels, he imposed new regulations on oil and gas and methane emissions,” Hawley noted. “Those were all just in the first few days, are you telling me that’s had no effect on our energy supply?” he questioned.

Hawley demanded to know what they were doing to address the situation. Granholm said that they were releasing a million barrels a day from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. While that’s reducing our reserve that’s supposed to be for emergencies (not to deal with failed Biden policies), it’s had no effect on reducing prices. Prices have continued to rise despite that. So, we’re reducing our savings account, without doing anything to deal with the problem. Granholm claims they were also calling for an increase in supply.

“Who are you calling for an increase in supply from?” Hawley questioned.

“From our domestic oil and gas manufacturers, from international oil and gas manufacturers,” Granholm said.

That’s when Hawley let Granholm have it, “Even as you cancel their leases?”

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The administration deliberately drove up the price of oil and in doing so funded Putin's war in Ukraine which led to further restrictions on the supply of oil and gas in the meantime Biden canceled more lease sales in Alaska and the offshore US.  He continues to do things to restrict the new supply of oil and waste the strategic reserve.