{"id":1394381,"date":"2022-03-22T14:17:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T18:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1394381"},"modified":"2022-03-22T14:18:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T18:18:04","slug":"gop-leader-demands-biden-energy-secretary-testify-on-rising-gas-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-leader-demands-biden-energy-secretary-testify-on-rising-gas-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Leader Demands Biden Energy Secretary Testify On Rising Gas Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fgop-leader-demands-biden-energy-secretary-testify-on-rising-gas-prices%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=1394381&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>Republican Washington Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers sent a letter to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, urging her to appear before a key House committee for a briefing on rising gasoline prices.<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers, the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, argued Granholm should appear before the panel to make clear how the Biden administration is addressing surging gas prices amid a global energy crisis, <a href=\"https:\/\/republicans-energycommerce.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022.03.22-Letter-to-Sec.-Granholm.pdf\">according<\/a> to the letter sent Tuesday. If Granholm accepts the invitation, she would be Republicans\u2019 witness at a Big Oil hearing scheduled by Democrats for April 6.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the Secretary of Energy, you are well-positioned to explain to the Committee and the American people what the Biden-Harris administration will do to reverse its anti-American energy agenda to help address rising gas prices,\u201d Rodgers wrote in her letter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurther, you recently said we \u2018are on war footing\u2019 and that \u2018[i]n this moment of crisis, we need more supply,&#8217;\u201d she said. \u201cAccordingly, we invite you to testify at the April 6, 2022, hearing to explain the specific steps the Biden-Harris administration will be taking to help increase domestic oil and gas production and supply.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/21\/republicans-line-5-pipeline-michigan-gretchen-whitmer\/\">(RELATED: Republicans Renew Criticism Of Efforts To Shut Key Oil Pipeline Amid Energy Crisis)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7395916\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7395916\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm speaks during an event to discuss investments in electric vehicles on Feb. 10 in Washington, D.C. (Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Since Russia invaded neighboring Ukraine, oil prices\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/24\/crude-oil-prices-100-per-barrel-russia-ukraine\/\">skyrocketed<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/02\/crude-oil-russia-white-house-energy-sanctions\/\">above<\/a>\u00a0$100 per barrel,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/markets.businessinsider.com\/commodities\/oil-price?type=wti\">touching<\/a>\u00a0$120 per barrel at one point, and gasoline prices have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/07\/gasoline-prices-all-time-high-russia-white-house\/\">hit record levels<\/a> nationwide. During a speech at the energy industry CERAWeek conference, Granholm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/articles\/secretary-granholm-ceraweek-keynote-luncheon-and-11-fireside-chat-sp-globals-dan-yergin\">said<\/a> the U.S. was on \u201cwar footing\u201d and needed to \u201cincrease short-term supply.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Democrats and the White House have blamed both Russian President Vladimir Putin and oil corporations for the high energy prices. Democrats, including Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, have <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/18\/democrats-big-oil-hearings-gas-prices-joe-biden\/\">scheduled<\/a> at least three upcoming hearings for oil executives to testify about high prices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it comes to oil and gas prices, many accept that gas prices rise quickly but fall slowly \u2014 the so-called \u2018rockets-and-feathers\u2019 phenomenon,\u201d White House press secretary Jen Psaki\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/press-briefings\/2022\/03\/16\/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-march-16-2022\/\">told<\/a> reporters on March 16. \u201cBut President Biden rejects that. Americans deserve relief, and fast, as oil prices fall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gasoline prices have hit multiple multi-year highs since Biden took office as he has unleashed a series of attacks against the fossil fuel industry, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/10\/joe-biden-green-energy-keystone-xl-pipeline-worker\/\">nixing<\/a> pipelines, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/20\/joe-biden-administration-interior-department-alaska-oil-drilling-energy-prices\/\">canceling<\/a> drilling projects and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/21\/biden-administration-interior-department-oil-gas-leasing-reuters\/\">delaying<\/a> the federal oil and gas leasing program.<\/p>\n<p>Pallone\u2019s office and the Department of Energy didn\u2019t immediately respond to requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Washington Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers sent a letter to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, urging her to appear before a key House committee for a briefing on rising gasoline prices.Rodgers,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}