{"id":1465744,"date":"2022-05-05T20:29:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T00:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1465744"},"modified":"2022-05-05T20:29:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T00:29:45","slug":"perhaps-the-department-should-not-exist-senate-republicans-trade-barbs-with-energy-sec-granholm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/perhaps-the-department-should-not-exist-senate-republicans-trade-barbs-with-energy-sec-granholm\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Perhaps The Department Should Not Exist\u2019: Senate Republicans Trade Barbs With Energy Sec Granholm"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fperhaps-the-department-should-not-exist-senate-republicans-trade-barbs-with-energy-sec-granholm%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=1465744&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/9F42105C-F806-44BB-AF85-162BE8FCEC9D-scaled.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Senate Republicans traded barbs with Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm at a meeting of the Senate Energy Committee.<\/p>\n<p>At a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9yXmLCC8Q7U&#038;t=2023s\">Committee hearing<\/a> Thursday, Granholm sparred with Republican Wyoming Senator John Barrasso, Kansas Senator Roger Marshall, and Utah Senator Mike Lee on the Biden administration\u2019s moves against oil and natural gas production.<\/p>\n<p>Granholm was first asked by Barrasso about comments made by White House Climate adviser Gina McCarthy that Biden was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2022\/04\/20\/w-h-climate-adviser-mccarthy-biden-committed-to-opposing-more-drilling-on-public-lands-were-making-irreversible-change-to-green\/\">absolutely committed<\/a> to not moving forward with additional drilling on public lands.\u201d Granholm responded by saying the Interior Department had opened up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/biden-administration-resume-leasing-oil-gas-drilling-federal-lands-rcna24646\">some land<\/a> to new drilling leases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes the president \u2026 confirm what the climate advisor has said or does he contradict what the climate advisor has said?\u201d Barrasso then asked. Granholm responded that Biden has called for more domestic oil supply, and authorized more federal oil and gas leases to meet that supply.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell then perhaps the climate adviser then shouldn\u2019t contradict the president after a statement that he makes,\u201d Barrasso replied.<\/p>\n<p>Granholm then claimed that the Biden administration has not held back domestic energy production, citing a survey by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasfed.org\/research\/surveys\/des\/2022\/2201.aspx#tab-questions\">Dallas Federal Reserve<\/a> in which just 6% of oil and gas industry CEOs said that government regulations are restraining growth. Barrasso lambasted that claim at the end of his line of questioning. \u201cIn spite of what we\u2019ve just heard from the Secretary, this administration has been actively discouraging and browbeating lending institutions to not loan money for this sort of thing,\u201d Barrasso noted, \u201cso it\u2019s very hard to produce energy when this administration has continued to put their finger down against it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later, Granholm had a tense exchange with Marshall. \u201cThe last time you filled your car up with gasoline, do you remember what the price was?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI drive an electric vehicle,\u201d Granholm said curtly. Some in the room audibly laughed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you know what the price of gasoline is in Washington, D.C.?\u201d Marshall continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that on average, the price for gas, of a gallon of gas across the country is $4.25,\u201d Granholm replied. Marshall said that the average price in D.C. is about $5 per gallon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave your policies resulted in decreasing supply of oil and gas?\u201d Marshall asked later in the exchange.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, sir,\u201d Granholm replied, instead blaming the increase in gas prices on the Biden administration\u2019s oil <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-announces-ban-on-russian-oil-imports-in-bid-to-hold-putin-accountable\">embargo<\/a>. \u201cSince oil is traded on a global market, that\u2019s why the price has gone up,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you do not believe any of your policies have impacted the supply of oil and gas in this country?\u201d Marshall asked again.<\/p>\n<p>Granholm again said no, and said energy industry CEOs agreed with her, citing the same Fed survey.<\/p>\n<p>Marshall took issue with Granholm\u2019s denial, and like Barrasso, pointed out: \u201cFolks are afraid to invest because of your policies, your overaggressive policies, and I just hope that your economists would stop and take responsibility that the decreased supply in this country is what has led to the increased price, and your policies are responsible for that \u2026 and fear of investing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Granholm had a heated exchange with Senator Mike Lee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to provide American energy with a silver buckshot approach, not a silver bullet approach,\u201d Granholm said in response to a question from Lee about subsidies for \u201cintermittent\u201d energy sources like wind. \u201cWe have to be investing in the production of clean energy, we have to be investing in the technology to get us to those energy sources, [including] the de-carbonization of the existing fossil fuel industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOkay, de-carbonization of the existing fossil fuel industry is not your mission,\u201d Lee cut in. \u201cYour mission is to provide an affordable and adequate and reliable source of energy at the lowest reasonable cost. If you\u2019re not determined to advance that mission, and in fact if you\u2019re undertaking other efforts \u2026 then we have a problem. If the Department doesn\u2019t wanna pursue the statutory mandate for which it was created, perhaps the department should not exist.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans traded barbs with Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm at a meeting of the Senate Energy Committee.At a Committee hearing Thursday, Granholm sparred with Republican Wyoming Senator John Barrasso, Kansas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":1481804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465744","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\/1465744","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\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}