{"id":1421669,"date":"2022-04-06T11:14:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T15:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1421669"},"modified":"2022-04-06T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T15:15:00","slug":"democrat-who-proposed-fracking-ban-says-energy-companies-arent-producing-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-who-proposed-fracking-ban-says-energy-companies-arent-producing-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Who Proposed Fracking Ban Says Energy Companies Aren\u2019t Producing Enough"},"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\">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%2Fdemocrat-who-proposed-fracking-ban-says-energy-companies-arent-producing-enough%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=1421669&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--><div><\/div>\n<p>Democratic Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky accused Big Oil companies of not producing enough energy despite previously backing a ban on fracking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe evidence is in,\u201d Schakowsky, a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2022\/04\/06\/oil-execs-could-decided-to-produce-more-oil-right-now-says-rep-jan-schakowsky.html?&#038;qsearchterm=jan%20schakowsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> CNBC on Wednesday. \u201cWhen we see that the oil companies actually made a decision not to produce anymore but rather to increase their profits and with that money to do things like stock buybacks \u2014 we heard from seven oil companies that decided to make about $25 billion in stock buybacks \u2014 that they decide to increase the revenue they send to their investors and to raise the salaries of their CEOs and their top executives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Schakowsky has previously <a href=\"https:\/\/schakowsky.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/earth-day-pocan-and-schakowsky-introduce-strongest-federal-fracking-ban-us\">sponsored<\/a> a bill that proposed a complete ban on fracking nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should not allow short-term economic gain to harm our public lands, damage our communities or endanger workers,\u201d Schakowsky <a href=\"https:\/\/schakowsky.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/earth-day-pocan-and-schakowsky-introduce-strongest-federal-fracking-ban-us\">said<\/a> in 2015 after proposing the fracking ban. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/05\/joe-biden-keystone-xl-canada-oil-imports\/\">(RELATED: Biden\u2019s Decision To Kill Keystone XL Has Come Back To Haunt Him: REPORT)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During the interview Wednesday, CNBC anchor Joe Kernen noted that 26 Democrats recently voted in favor of banning fracking. He asked the congresswoman if she was one of the votes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, the question is what are the oil companies doing,\u201d she responded. \u201cYes, I am against fracking, I think it\u2019s a real problem. But the question is, the oil companies made a decision in this crisis right now to raise the cost, to gouge the consumers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schakowsky added that oil companies are able to \u201cput out\u201d more energy without additional fracking or drilling. She didn\u2019t say whether she was one of the lawmakers that voted against fracking.<\/p>\n<p>The House Energy and Commerce Committee is slated to host a series of Big Oil executives later in the day Wednesday for a hearing on price gouging. Democrats have <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/18\/democrats-big-oil-hearings-gas-prices-joe-biden\/\">blamed<\/a> oil companies for rising gasoline prices in the wake of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, but experts have <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bob_McNally\/status\/1504080523626528782\">pushed back<\/a>, saying there is no evidence of price gouging.<\/p>\n<p>Since the committee\u2019s Democratic leadership first <a href=\"https:\/\/energycommerce.house.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/pallone-asks-oil-company-executives-to-testify-and-answer-for-rising-gas\">announced<\/a> the hearing on March 16, pump prices have tumbled, AAA data <a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/\">showed<\/a>. The average cost of gasoline nationwide fell to $4.16 a gallon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/petroleum\/gasdiesel\/\">down from<\/a> the March 14 average of $4.32 a gallon, on Wednesday.<\/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>Democratic Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky accused Big Oil companies of not producing enough energy despite previously backing a ban on fracking.\u201cThe evidence is in,\u201d Schakowsky, a member of the House<\/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-1421669","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\/1421669","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=1421669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421669\/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=1421669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}