Lankford: Dems are trying to avoid responsibility for high gas prices by blaming "Big Oil"

Democrats Are Trying to Avoid Responsibility for High Gas Prices by Blaming “Big Oil” By US Senator James Lankford On the first day of the Biden presidency, he announced he would not permit the Keystone Pipeline to bring heavy crude oil from Canada, but we could purchase the same amount of heavy crude oil from Russia. How did that foreign policy decision work out?   Every month of the Biden presidency, gas prices have gone up because he shut off pipeline expansion, closed off leasing federal lands for oil production, changed the rules for energy development, and announced he wanted a big tax increase on small producers of oil and natural gas. Then, the President acted shocked when the price of everything went up and inflation hit a 40-year high. Chuck Schumer recently said, “The Senate is going to get answers, and that’s why we will be calling on the CEOs of major oil companies to come testify before Congress.” I hope they do call energy producers to Capitol Hill so the real story can get out.  Blaming so-called “Big Oil” and Putin for high gas prices is an incomplete story. Certainly a war in an area where so much oil is produced will cause global prices to temporarily increase. But Oklahomans know that much of our US energy comes from small businesses and hard-working families who are proud to produce the energy we need every day to get to school and work, heat our homes, cook our food, and manufacture the goods we need to live our lives. If those men and women were not in the field drilling, we would all be walking to work and reading books at home late at night by candlelight.  Read more » by Jamison Faught - April 05, 2022 at 08:36AM

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