Posted on 01/11/2023 9:19:27 AM PST by bitt
"Environmental justice is not justice because it's creating poverty," said Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers. "Climate change policy creates a permanent underclass to be controlled by the government."
Eastern Washington Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers picked up the gavel for the first time Tuesday as chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. She led a roundtable discussion about what needs to change with the nation's energy policy to lower high fuel and food costs.
"Like all of you, I'm very excited to hit the ground running this morning – we have an opportunity to address what American families are facing," said McMorris Rodgers to open the first committee meeting of the 118th Congress.
She has served on the committee since 2011 and has held federal office since 2004.
GOP committee members sat around a conference table at the U.S. Capitol to hear from a panel of invited guests. Giving testimony about the effects of the "Biden administration's war on fossil fuel" were: Dan Alsaker, president of Alsaker Corporation; Donna Jackson, director of membership development for Project 21; David Hickman, co-owner and operator of Dublin Farms, Inc.; and Jeff Eshelman, president and chief executive officer of the Independent Petroleum Association of America.
Established in 1795, the committee is the oldest standing legislative committee in the House. The panel is given the broadest jurisdiction of any congressional authorizing committee and is charged with setting policy for energy, technology, trade and health care.
"Energy is the tie that binds everything together," said McMorris Rodgers of the committee's importance. "It's critical to our economy and everything we do."
Alsaker was the first presenter. His company is located in Spokane Valley, Washington, and for more than 50 years, has operated a chain of truck stops in the Pacific Northwest. Alsaker generates about $53.6 million in annual revenue and employs about 300 people with the current workforce shortage.
"I've been around and I've been through a lot of the trials and tribulations of the industry, he said.
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This is EXACTLY what they want. Just like welfare, WIC and every other parasitic agency these bastards create.
I’m sick of the word “sustainable”. Whenever I hear it I want to scream.
Thank goodness. Maybe a little bit of sanity will return.
It's an expensive poverty too...
Permanent underclass: Most everyone if they get their way.
Environmental justice deprives citizens of property rights.
What they mean to sustain is their insatiable desire for power and control.
But we hit PEAK OIL decades ago! We’re just scraping the bottom of the wells anyway. Right?
Me too. The climate pushers just get the government to up the fees on things like gas and electricity that goes into the pockets of the government. It doesn’t do much to effect “climate change”.
“Energy is the tie that binds everything together,” said McMorris Rodgers of the committee’s importance. “It’s critical to our economy and everything we do.”
That’s why it’s being hogtied. It will come to a head during 2023. Demand is expected to rise by over 5mm barrels a day and excess capacity is low due to lack of preliminary investment required for production increases. Invest in energy.
Energy and manufacturing are the #1 and #2 targets of strategic bombing campaigns.
The Left is waging war against the West.
“Energy and manufacturing are the #1 and #2 targets of strategic bombing campaigns.”
The Left has hated energy for decades. That’s why I’ve heavily invested in it for decades.
That's not sustainable. You'll be screaming all the time.
The right hates manufacturing. Well they like it if it is made NOT in the USA...
“Environmental justice deprives citizens of property rights.”
That’s the whole point.
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…. And, we have a winner! More expensive power, more underclass relying on government.
And plenty of sheep to fool along the way.
They're not coming. They're already controlling everything about you.
See: eia.gov
This is government policy in play and 2022 is the highest export volume ever of refined petroleum products.
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