Posted on 05/20/2022 8:43:08 AM PDT by rktman
On Thursday morning in a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm repeatedly refused to acknowledge that the Biden administration's war on U.S. energy had caused gas prices to rise since the president took office and started cracking down on domestic energy production.
Even after Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri laid out the proof of the Biden administration's anti-fossil fuel policies that have limited supply and driven up costs, Granholm still wouldn't accept any responsibility for the soaring cost of gas as the national average for regular unleaded hit another all-time high on Thursday morning.
"Today in the State of Missouri, the average price of gasoline is $4.10," Hawley noted, adding the "average price of diesel is $5.18. And I'm sure you've seen the reporting this morning that now AAA is projecting that gas prices will hit a national average — average — of $6 a gallon by the month of August, he said. "Is this acceptable to you?"
"No, it is not," Secretary Granholm claimed before saying "you can thank the activity of Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine," another Biden administration blame-shifting attempt.
"Oh nonsense," Hawley interjected. "With all due respect, Madam Secretary, that's utter nonsense."
"In January of 2021, the average gas price in my state was $2.07," Hawley reminded Granholm. "Eight months later, long before Vladimir Putin invaded, that price was up 30 percent and has been going up consistently since. What are you doing to reverse this administration's policies that are drawing down our own supply of energy in this country, that are throttling oil and gas production in the United states of America - what are you doing about it?" he asked.
"With respect sir, it is not administration policies that have affected supply and demand," Granholm claimed.
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Looks like she got rid of all the warts on her face. There’s probably more in private areas. Yuk!
Granholm got Blown Away.
By what ever logic this moronic woman is using Biden’s deliberate destruction of domestic oil and gas production is all a figment of the fevered brains of rabid ‘’right wingers’’’, it’s Putin’s fault and Joe Biden hasn’t anything to with it’’.
Then what is Biden doing in office?
Nothing is his fault, he does nothing all day anyway and so he has done NOTHING productive since he has been in office so the question becomes why is he still in office?
He’s useless.
Impeach the bitch.
L
He didn’t destroy anyone or change ANYTHING. A little less talk and a lot more action needed. NOTHING was fixed, nothing is going to be fixed. This is all sooooo stupid!
This has all been done on purpose.
But since we are dealing with Democrats
AKA idiots it doesn’t matter.
Fuk them and let them suffer.
Problem we need to deal with is how to get rid of them
and survive afterwards?
Trump had it under control and everyone knows it except the psychos in the administration and the non-working Dems.
This is not accidental or unintentional. It is the goal of the Biden admin. to have fuel prices be as high as possible. They are philosophically opposed to private transportation being available to everyone except, of course, themselves (the “elites”).
Giving too much freedom to the common people is against their religion. They want us to ride the bus, take the train or ride a bicycle. As in Europe.
Destroyed her? SHe left his job in tears and is now homeless and jobless then?
What's not said is that THERE IS NO REASON TO TRANSITION AWAY FROM FOSSIL FUELS. THEY ARE A GREAT SOURCE OF ENERGY!
Of course that was swirling around in the back of my head as I posted it. They don’t give a crap about us since they get limo’d around and continue to get richer the longer they stay in d.c. It ain’t about us in 99.9% of the ‘representative’ up there. Lucky they don’t act on info they get during hearings and stuff that crosses their desks huh.
Meanwhile the OBiden maladministration continues to destroy America, for real, not the fake kind that this article suggests.
Fossil fuels don’t come from fossils. Plenty of oil and gas beneath the Earth’s mantle. How would a fossil get below the mantle of the Earth.
More bad science.
“You are insane if you believe that the demonRATs were ever in favor”
I agree with that and also note their silence on nuclear.
There is only one good thing about all of this inflation in food and gas and soon heating fuel, the stupid democrats that live next door and in your neighborhood are paying and suffering the same as the rest of us.
They all need to be reminded why every day.
Sounds like the policy to me.
This is the same Rat woman who was telling people to go buy electric cars if you don’t like paying high gas prices (as if everyone has $50,000 sitting around for that purpose).
Biden and his puppet masters WANT super high gas for exact that reason, to force people into electric crap cars.
Biden said clear as day in one of the debates with Trump that he would end the use of fossil fuel. Even the liberal moderator stuttered her way through that comment from him.
Biden said he’d do it, and now he’s doing it. Hawley and everyone else slamming these idiot minions asking them what are they going to do to get pricing down are asking the wrong questions. Biden is going to continue to make good on his promise to eliminate fossil fuels.
The question Hawley should be asking is what are the republicans going to do about it? What can they do?
Premium gas $5.169/gallon today in Salem, OR
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