{"id":1492331,"date":"2022-05-25T20:30:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T00:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1492331"},"modified":"2022-05-25T20:30:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T00:30:15","slug":"energy-sec-granholm-soaring-gas-prices-are-an-exclamation-point-that-u-s-must-accelerate-green-energy-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/energy-sec-granholm-soaring-gas-prices-are-an-exclamation-point-that-u-s-must-accelerate-green-energy-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy Sec Granholm: Soaring Gas Prices Are An \u2018Exclamation Point\u2019 That U.S. Must Accelerate Green Energy Push"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fenergy-sec-granholm-soaring-gas-prices-are-an-exclamation-point-that-u-s-must-accelerate-green-energy-push%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=1492331&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>Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said that soaring gas prices are a major reason why the U.S. economy must transition away from fossil fuels and toward green energy.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters during a press conference in Golden, Colorado, announcing a $38 million investment by the Department of Energy to \u201cdecarbonize\u201d its National Laboratories, Granholm said that continuing concern about rising prices at the pump was an \u201cexclamation point\u201d on the need to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/equilibrium-sustainability\/3501901-granholm-gas-price-struggle-an-exclamation-point-for-need-to-accelerate-clean-energy\/\">The Hill<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>During the exchange with reporters, Granholm also referred to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its effects on the global oil supply as a reason to push for more green energy. \u201cNo one has ever weaponized access to the sun,\u201d Granholm said, referencing Russia\u2019s move to cancel energy exports or demand shipments to be paid in Russian rubles. \u201cNo one has ever weaponized access to wind. The way we are energy secure is to build homegrown clean energy, and other countries are looking to that as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Granholm repeated the rhetorical line that gas prices stem from the price of oil around the world, saying that every country in the world is also dealing with high prices and looking for ways to increase supply. \u201cEverybody realizes that gasoline is derived from oil, and oil is traded on a global market, and so every country in the world is facing this,\u201d she said. \u201cEvery country is looking for ways to increase supply in the moment \u2014 in supply of oil so that we can stabilize.\u201d Granholm added that the U.S. can increase supply by tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and urging oil companies to increase their output, moves the Biden administration has already taken.<\/p>\n<p>Granholm\u2019s comments Wednesday come after she denied that the Biden administration is intentionally driving up gas prices to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/tom-cotton-high-gas-prices-not-some-accident-biden-pushing-americans-to-adopt-green-tech\">pressure Americans<\/a> to transition to alternative energy. \u201cThat is absolutely false,\u201d Granholm <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thehill\/status\/1529454990405693441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1529454990405693441%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fdougp-3137%2F2022%2F05%2F25%2Fenergy-secretary-granholm-trips-all-over-biden-while-denying-this-admin-wants-high-gas-prices%2F\">said Tuesday<\/a>, again giving the excuse that oil prices are traded on a global market. Granholm also claimed that the Biden administration understands that the nation is not ready to transition yet, and is working to increase supply \u201ctoday, to bring prices down, [and] to stabilize supply and demand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Granholm\u2019s comments come just days after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-sounds-off-on-whether-he-thinks-another-recession-is-inevitable\">President Joe Biden <\/a>raised eyebrows when he described the pain American consumers are feeling at the pump as an \u201cincredible transition\u201d that the country will come out stronger for having gone through. \u201c[When] it comes to the gas prices, we\u2019re going through an incredible transition that is taking place that, God willing, when it\u2019s over, we\u2019ll be stronger and the world will be stronger and less reliant on fossil fuels when this is over,\u201d Biden said at a press conference Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe price of gas at the pump is something that I told you \u2014 you heard me say before \u2014 it would be a matter of great discussion at my kitchen table when I was a kid growing up. It\u2019s affecting a lot of families,\u201d Biden continued. \u201cBut we have released over two hundred and, I think, fifty-seven thousand \u2014 million barrels of oil, I should say. Us and the rest of the world we convinced to get involved. It\u2019s helped, but it\u2019s not been enough.\u201d But instead of seeking to increase domestic energy production, Biden said he would persuade OPEC countries to increase their output to address high prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said that soaring gas prices are a major reason why the U.S. economy must transition away from fossil fuels and toward green energy. Speaking to reporters during a press conference in Golden, Colorado, announcing a $38 million investment by the Department of Energy to \u201cdecarbonize\u201d its National Laboratories, Granholm said that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":1492344,"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-1492331","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\/1492331","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=1492331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1492344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}