{"id":1484422,"date":"2022-05-19T13:30:24","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T17:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1484422"},"modified":"2022-05-19T13:30:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T17:30:30","slug":"utter-nonsense-sen-hawley-grills-energy-secretary-after-pinning-putin-for-gas-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utter-nonsense-sen-hawley-grills-energy-secretary-after-pinning-putin-for-gas-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Utter Nonsense\u2019: Sen. Hawley Grills Energy Secretary After Pinning Putin For 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\">26<\/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%2Futter-nonsense-sen-hawley-grills-energy-secretary-after-pinning-putin-for-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=1484422&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>Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley grilled Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm during a Thursday hearing for attempting to blame Russian President Vladimir Putin for rising gas prices.<\/p>\n<p>Hawley pointed to AAA\u2019s prediction that the national average gas price will potentially cost $6 per gallon, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">average prices<\/a> of regular and diesel gasoline currently stand at $4.58 and $5.57 per gallon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs this acceptable to you?\u201d Hawley asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, it is not and you can thank the activity of Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine and those barrels\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh nonsense,\u201d Hawley interjected. \u201cAll due respect, Madame Secretary, that is utter nonsense. In January 2021, the average gas price of my state was $2.07, eight months later, long before Vladimir Putin had invaded Ukraine, that price was up over 30% and has been going up consistently ever since. What are you doing to reverse this administration\u2019s policies that are drawing down our own supply of energy in this country, that are throttling oil and gas production in the United States of America. What are you doing about it?\u201d<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/09\/d-c-b-s-energy-secretary-granholm-denies-reopening-keystone-gas-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Granholm<\/a> denied that it is the policies of President Joe Biden\u2019s administration that are impacting supply and demand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can you say that when the price of gas was up over 30% from January\u2014you can answer my questions and it is my time Madame Secretary, so why don\u2019t you answer my question. From January to August, the price of gasoline was up over 30% and in my state alone, it has been a continuous upward tick since then.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/10\/putin-gas-price-hike-psaki-pins-russia-oil-companies-gas-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Putin\u2019s Gas Price Hike\u2019: Psaki Pins Russia And Oil Companies For Rising Gas Prices)\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The senator then listed the Biden administration\u2019s revoking of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/20\/keystone-xl-pipeline-scrapped-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Keystone XL Pipeline<\/a>, re-entering the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/21\/ted-cruz-joe-biden-paris-climate-accord-pittsburgh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paris Climate Accord<\/a>, halted oil and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/12\/joe-biden-administration-oil-gas-lease-sales\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gas leases<\/a> on federal lands and directed federal agencies to shift support away from all <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/26\/biden-issue-moratorium-fossil-fuel-leases-federal-lands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fossil fuels<\/a> in the first few days of the presidency. Granholm said 94% of oil executives surveyed by the Dallas Fed said the administration\u2019s policies had no impact on the current costs of oil and gas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not interested in the opinions of those people, I\u2019m interested in the facts,\u201d Hawley said. \u201cAre you telling me that these policies had no effect, is that your testimony? Madame Secretary, are you telling me, under oath, that these policies had no effect?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey did not ask Vladimir Putin about the increase in demand and the decrease in supply from pulling Russian barrels of oil off the market thanks to rightly, the United States saying \u2018we\u2019re not going to take Russian oil\u2019 coming out of COVID,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo what explains the increase between January and August 2021?\u201d the senator pressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComing out of COVID, there was an increase in demand because people were driving again, when there was no demand, the prices dropped,\u201d she said. \u201cThat is a basic law of economics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to say, Madame Secretary, with all due respect, your answers are insulting,\u201d Hawley said. \u201cAnd they are insulting to the people of Missouri who are looking for action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hawley repeatedly demanded an answer to the administration\u2019s plan to bring down the price of gasoline, leading the two to talk over one another.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSir, if you could let me finish,\u201d she said. \u201cI am answering your question, sir. Oil is traded on a global market. We are paying extremely high prices today just as they are in Japan\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat are you doing to bring it down?\u201d Hawley pressed. The energy secretary said the agency is calling for an increase in supply of oil barrels and has tapped the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/31\/joe-biden-strategic-petroleum-reserve-crude-oil-gasoline-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Strategic Petroleum Reserve <\/a>(SPR) to which the senator repeatedly asked who she is asking for an increase in supply from.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho are you calling for an increase in supply from?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom our domestic oil and gas manufacturers, from international oil and gas manufacturers,\u201d she said. \u201cWe want to increase supply and that\u2019s why the president released an unprecedented amount from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and our international allies also released from their reserves to try and balance out supply and demand while the oil and gas companies increase supply and the Energy Information Administration has projected that they will have increased, in the United States, about 1 million barrels a day by the end of this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/09\/white-house-rebrands-rising-gas-prices-putin-price-hike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rebranded<\/a> rising costs of gas as \u201cPutin\u2019s Price Hike\u201d after the average price of gasoline skyrocketed to exceed $4 a gallon following Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, though prices drastically rose in the months prior to the invasion. Biden even <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/23\/joe-biden-strategic-petroleum-reserve-critics-gas-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tapped<\/a> the SPR in November to combat costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Missouri Sen. 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