{"id":1012744,"date":"2021-11-14T22:13:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T03:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1012744"},"modified":"2021-11-14T22:13:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T03:13:31","slug":"exclusive-tom-cotton-high-gas-prices-intended-effect-of-joe-bidens-energy-policy-it-is-not-some-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-tom-cotton-high-gas-prices-intended-effect-of-joe-bidens-energy-policy-it-is-not-some-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive\u2014 Tom Cotton: High Gas Prices \u2018Intended Effect of Joe Biden\u2019s Energy Policy,\u2019 It Is Not \u2018Some Accident\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-tom-cotton-high-gas-prices-intended-effect-of-joe-bidens-energy-policy-it-is-not-some-accident%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1012744&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) told Breitbart News exclusively he believes President Joe Biden and other Democrats are deliberately causing gas prices to hike to record highs on purpose to push their leftist environmentalist agenda on unsuspecting Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Cotton, who campaigned last week for Republicans in Iowa ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, told Breitbart News in a phone interview between events that he believes the high gas prices are on purpose.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMost notably, more and more people tell me that they\u2019re not even able to fill their pickup truck tank up for the entire week,\u201d Cotton said. \u201cThey\u2019ve got to fill up half a tank and hope that the price comes down by the end of the week. That, in particular, is the intended effect of Joe Biden\u2019s energy policy. It\u2019s not unintended or some accident. They want gas to cost $4 a gallon because they want all of us to get out of pickup trucks and SUVs and get into small electric compacts or bicycles or scooters or whatever else Pete Buttigieg takes to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is a significant development that sitting GOP U.S. senators are calling out Biden and his administration for, alleging that they are causing this phenomenon on purpose to push their agenda. Biden last week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/10\/joe-biden-marvels-at-4-50-a-gallon-gas-prices-did-you-ever-think-youd-be-paying-this-much\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expressed<\/a> shock&nbsp;about gas price hikes while selling his \u201cinfrastructure\u201d plan after the U.S. House passed the so-called \u201cBipartisan Infrastructure Framework,\u201d 87 days after the U.S. Senate passed the bill. The president is expected to sign the plan, which contains billions of dollars in spending on a push toward electric vehicles away from cars and trucks that run on gasoline.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18236914\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/gas-prices-california-october-5-2021-inflation-getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18236914\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/gas-prices-california-october-5-2021-inflation-getty.jpg\" alt=\"SAN RAFAEL, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 05: Gas prices approaching $5 a gallon are displayed in front of a Shell gas station on October 05, 2021 in San Rafael, California. Gas prices in the U.S. are continuing to rise to the highest level since 2014. According to AAA, the national average for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline inched up to $3.20 over the last month, over $1 per gallon more than one year ago. (Photo by Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gas prices approaching $5 a gallon are displayed in front of a Shell gas station on October 05, 2021, in San Rafael, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Cotton argues that the Democrats\u2019 high-spending agenda\u2014which was even backed by some Republicans in both the House and Senate\u2014is only going to cause more inflation across the board.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou cannot print trillions of dollars in money on the one hand and also pay people not to work and not to produce the stuff that we need to buy and on the other hand not expect the price to increase as fast as it has in 30 years,\u201d Cotton said. \u201cAt this rate, people are losing a penny on every dollar of their savings every month. So in three months, if you had $100 in your savings account, it\u2019ll be worth only $97 in just three months. That is going to continue to worsen as long as the Democrats pursue their reckless inflationary policies. I heard it today; I hear it all across Arkansas. People can\u2019t find the turkeys and the fixings for Thanksgiving. If they can, they can barely afford it. They can\u2019t find Christmas gifts for the kids. If they can, they have to cut back the number of presents they buy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cotton said, \u201cyes,\u201d when asked if the inflation and energy price crises will get worse before they get better.<\/p>\n<p>Cotton also said that the Democrats took \u201cthe exact wrong message\u201d away from last Tuesday\u2019s elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and elsewhere across America where Republicans won nearly everywhere and Democrats were roundly rejected at the polls in the biggest election since the November 2020 vote and before the upcoming 2022 congressional midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe message that voters sent all across the country\u2014not just in Virginia, but all across the country\u2014was: stop the madness,\u201d Cotton said. \u201cStop it with the shutdowns and the lockdowns, stop indoctrination of kids, stop the madness at the border, and stop the trillion-dollar spending plans that are just going to make inflation and supply chain problems even worse. The Democrats are doing the exact opposite. They are going for broke. Perhaps they know that it\u2019s too far gone for them, and they\u2019re going to lose power next year no matter what. So as Nancy Pelosi has long said about Obamacare, she was willing to lose the House to pass this. Maybe she\u2019s willing to lose the House to pass this big spending bill as well. But I think that it\u2019s a lot easier for the Nancy Pelosis of the world to say that than it is for these vulnerable Democrats who don\u2019t want to walk the plank on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18432482\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"38\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/10\/wi\/ap\/22\/congress-budget-popularity-oct-2021-photo-president-joe-biden-speaker-of-house-nancy-pelosi-calif.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18432482\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/congress-budget-popularity-oct-2021-photo-president-joe-biden-speaker-of-house-nancy-pelosi-calif-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Associated Press\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this Oct. 1, 2021, photo, President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) walk in a basement hallway of the Capitol after meeting with House Democrats, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Cotton is hopeful that the Republicans will retake the U.S. House and U.S. Senate next year in the midterm elections. To retake the House, the GOP needs to win at least a net five seats back from Democrats, and to retake the Senate, Republicans need to win one net seat back. The map on the Senate side is tougher, as Republicans are defending a number of battleground state seats and only have a handful of target pickup opportunities. The House, though, is looking a lot stronger with wide-scale Democrat retirements and rising energetic Republican challengers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the simple act of winning back Congress will help deter the radical left in charge of the Biden administration and a lot of their interest groups from their dumbest and most dangerous idea,\u201d Cotton said. \u201cLook, for instance, how quickly you had the National School Board Association climb down from their efforts to sic the feds on parents going to school boards. Now, unfortunately, Merrick Garland still refuses to do so. But the prospect of subpoenas from a Republican-led committee in January of 2023 might concentrate his mind and the minds of a lot of other bureaucrats in the administration before they take these wholehearted steps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iowa, where Cotton was campaigning for Republicans last week, will have a U.S. Senate race where longtime Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) will run for reelection. It will also have several battleground U.S. House races, with Rep. Cindy Axne (D-IA)\u2014the state\u2019s lone remaining Democrat in nationally elected office\u2014trying to hold back a red wave and Reps. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) and Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) trying to defend the seats they won in November 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re doing these things to continue the momentum that you saw in last week\u2019s election. Iowa is obviously going to be ground zero again next year with the Senate race and three competitive House races that will go a long way to determine control of the House,\u201d Cotton said. \u201cI wanted to make sure that we\u2019re building on the momentum we had this week. It\u2019s interesting that the issues and the perspectives I hear here, where it\u2019s just historically been very Democratic\u2014farm country and manufacturing counties that went strongly for Trump in both elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from Cotton\u2019s latest exclusive interview is forthcoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. 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