{"id":934364,"date":"2021-10-28T19:43:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T23:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=934364"},"modified":"2021-10-28T19:43:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T23:43:52","slug":"republican-leaders-rip-biden-for-rising-gas-prices-treat-america-like-youre-treating-other-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-leaders-rip-biden-for-rising-gas-prices-treat-america-like-youre-treating-other-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Leaders Rip Biden for Rising Gas Prices: \u2018Treat America Like You\u2019re Treating Other Countries\u2019"},"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\">30<\/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%2Frepublican-leaders-rip-biden-for-rising-gas-prices-treat-america-like-youre-treating-other-countries%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=934364&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/AP_21273573521708-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) led a roundtable discussion with fellow GOP congressmembers and energy stakeholders Wednesday on how pursuing American energy independence would help to alleviate increased gas prices.<\/p>\n<p>The congressmembers&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Breitbart\/videos\/590842545543077\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">emphasized<\/a>&nbsp;their disapproval of the White House\u2019s and congressional Democrats\u2019 current efforts to raise costs on U.S. energy production, which, the Republicans argued, would benefit other countries like China and Russia while straining the budgets of lower- and middle-class Americans.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The roundtable comes after the White House in August pressured OPEC, the international oil cartel comprised of 13 countries, to increase its oil supply to relieve Americans struggling with the spike in gas costs.<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Breitbart\/videos\/240034091526847\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Tuesday that President Joe Biden is focused on \u201csupply issues as it relates to oil\u201d and that \u201cputting additional pressure on OPEC is something that certainly our national security team will continue to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The focus on foreign energy sources comes as Biden and congressional Democrats have loaded their behemoth reconciliation package \u2014 which, at present, sits around $1.75 trillion \u2014 with climate agenda provisions aimed at shifting the U.S. from relying on energy sources like oil and natural gas toward \u201cgreen\u201d energy sources like wind and solar.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>McCarthy surmised that the Democrats \u201cgoal here is to make it too expensive for us to produce our own natural resources.\u201d He continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"17\">\n<p>So now they want to use hardworking taxpayers\u2019 money and go move it to green energy. So when they spend that taxpayer money, they\u2019re not creating American jobs because who controls the market to that? China. Who\u2019s going to prosper from that? China\u2019s economy\u2019s going to grow based upon taking American taxpayers\u2019 money.<\/p>\n<p>The saddest part about this is we don\u2019t have to rely on somebody else. God blessed this nation with natural resources. We care for them better than any other nation. We do it in an environmentally sound way, but if you do not produce it here, we will still consume it. So, we\u2019re harming the environment by [producing] it someplace else. We\u2019re creating economies for other countries instead of within America.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>McCarthy\u2019s roundtable comes as part of a series designed to dissect the various provisions in the reconciliation package, dubbed the \u201cBuild Back Better Act,\u201d which serves as the \u201csocial\u201d component to the Democrats\u2019 infrastructure agenda. The most recent text of the package is more than 1,600 pages and was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/rules.house.gov\/sites\/democrats.rules.house.gov\/files\/BILLS-117HR5376RH-RCP117-17.pdf\">released<\/a> Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The focus of Wednesday\u2019s roundtable was on how Democrats\u2019 current policies and package proposals are driving the increase in gas prices, which have indeed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">risen<\/a> to an average of $3.40 per gallon, per AAA. Gas prices <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/dnav\/pet\/hist\/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&amp;s=emm_epm0_pte_nus_dpg&amp;f=m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">skyrocketed<\/a> in 2021 and have shown no signs of slowing, and October\u2019s average cost of gasoline marks a seven-year high in the U.S., according to the Energy Department.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Yvette Herrell (R-NM), who sits on the Natural Resources Committee and comes from a state whose budget is heavily reliant on the oil and gas industry, contended that the U.S.&nbsp;\u201ccan produce [energy] cleaner and more affordably than any other country, yet we\u2019re putting ourselves at the risk of buying energy from our adversaries. It makes no sense at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA), another member of the Natural Resources Committee and also the&nbsp;Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, directed the Biden administration to \u201ctreat America like you\u2019re treating other countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Graves said he believes Democrats\u2019 broader climate agenda is an attempt \u201cto manipulate markets and force us in a direction of taking on things like solar and wind energy and other renewable sources that, look, have an important role in our energy future, but,\u201d he warned:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"14\">\n<p>\u2026by manipulating markets the way that you are without having the domestic production \u2026 all this does, as we have seen in history, it plays into the hands of Russia, makes us dependent upon them for domestic energy because we can get it cheaper, and it plays into the hands of China, making 90 percent of the solar panels globally, quartering the market on the rare earths and strategic minerals that they\u2019re prohibiting us from producing domestically.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Others present at the roundtable included Reps. Stephanie Bice (R-OK) and Pete Stauber (R-MN) and various mayors and industry representatives.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write to Ashley Oliver at <a href=\"mailto:aoliver@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aoliver@breitbart.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) led a roundtable discussion with fellow GOP congressmembers and energy stakeholders Wednesday on how pursuing American energy independence would help to alleviate increased gas &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"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-934364","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\/934364","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\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934364\/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=934364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}