{"id":981234,"date":"2021-11-07T14:29:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T19:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=981234"},"modified":"2021-11-07T14:29:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T19:29:30","slug":"biden-energy-secretary-people-going-to-pay-more-to-heat-homes-hope-gas-doesnt-hit-4-per-gallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-energy-secretary-people-going-to-pay-more-to-heat-homes-hope-gas-doesnt-hit-4-per-gallon\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Energy Secretary: People \u2018Going To\u2019 Pay More To Heat Homes, \u2018Hope\u2019 Gas Doesn\u2019t Hit $4 Per Gallon"},"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\">36<\/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%2Fbiden-energy-secretary-people-going-to-pay-more-to-heat-homes-hope-gas-doesnt-hit-4-per-gallon%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=981234&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 told CNN on Sunday that Americans will pay more to heat their homes this winter as energy prices continue to skyrocket and that the administration hopes that gas prices do not hit $4 per gallon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, according to AAA, the national average of gas prices is now $3.42 a gallon. Bank of America is predicting crude oil prices could soar another 50 percent by next June,\u201d CNN host Dana Bash said. \u201cCould the average gas price in America be $4 a gallon in the United States soon?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, we certainly hope not,\u201d Granholm responded. \u201cAs I say, the Energy Information Agency is going to put out their forecast this week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president is all over this,\u201d she claimed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShould Americans in what will likely be a cold winter \u2014 most of them are \u2014 expect to pay higher prices for heating their homes?\u201d Bash later asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, this is going to happen,\u201d Granholm responded. \u201cIt will be \u2014 it will be more expensive this year than last year. We are in a slightly beneficial position, certainly relative to Europe, because their choke hold of natural gas is very significant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>DANA BASH, CNN HOST: Hello. I\u2019m Dana Bash in Washington, where the state of our union is feeling some whiplash.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>After a bruising Election Day for Democrats, President Biden spent the weekend celebrating a significant win, bipartisan passage of his $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, which passed the House overnight Friday with the support of 13 Republicans and gives billions of dollars to the nation\u2019s bridges and roads, as well as broadband, water and energy systems.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Saturday, the president heralded a victory, calling it a monumental step forward as a nation. The president is still pushing Democrats on the Hill to pass the other half of his domestic agenda, the $1.75 trillion social spending bill and climate bill.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The administration had hoped to pass this legislation together, but the timeline for the larger bill slipped last week after moderates in the House demanded more information on the bill\u2019s cost.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Joining me now, someone who was deeply involved in the push for the infrastructure bill, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Thank you so much for joining me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JENNIFER GRANHOLM, U.S. ENERGY SECRETARY: You bet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BASH: Nice to see you in person.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>GRANHOLM: Yes, likewise.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BASH: It\u2019s a very large piece of legislation, almost law.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I want to narrow in on a couple specific parts of it. The president said yesterday that the bill will \u2014 quote<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm told CNN on Sunday that Americans will pay more to heat their homes this winter as energy prices continue to skyrocket and that the administration hopes that gas prices do not hit $4 per gallon.\u201cSo, according to AAA, the national average of gas prices is now $3.42 a gallon. Bank of America is predicting crude oil prices could soar another 50 percent by next June,\u201d CNN host Dana Bash said. \u201cCould the average gas price in America be $4 a gallon in the United States soon?\u201d\u201cWell, we certainly hope not,\u201d Granholm responded. \u201cAs I say, the Energy Information Agency is going to put out their forecast this week.\u201d\u201cThe president is all over this,\u201d she claimed.\u201cShould Americans in what will likely be a cold winter \u2014 most of them are \u2014 expect to pay higher prices for heating their homes?\u201d Bash later asked.\u201cYeah, this is going to happen,\u201d Granholm responded. \u201cIt will be \u2014 it will be more expensive this year than last year. We are in a slightly beneficial position, certainly relative to Europe, because their choke hold of natural gas is very significant.\u201dDANA BASH, CNN HOST: Hello. I\u2019m Dana Bash in Washington, where the state of our union is feeling some whiplash.After a bruising Election Day for Democrats, President Biden spent the weekend celebrating a significant win, bipartisan passage of his $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, which passed the House overnight Friday with the support of 13 Republicans and gives billions of dollars to the nation\u2019s bridges and roads, as well as broadband, water and energy systems.Saturday, the president heralded a victory, calling it a monumental step forward as a nation. The president is still pushing Democrats on the Hill to pass the other half of his domestic agenda, the $1.75 trillion social spending bill and climate bill.The administration had hoped to pass this legislation together, but the timeline for the larger bill slipped last week after moderates in the House demanded more information on the bill\u2019s cost.Joining me now, someone who was deeply involved in the push for the infrastructure bill, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm.Thank you so much for joining me.JENNIFER GRANHOLM, U.S. ENERGY SECRETARY: You bet.BASH: Nice to see you in person.GRANHOLM: Yes, likewise.BASH: It\u2019s a very large piece of legislation, almost law.I want to narrow in on a couple specific parts of it. The president said yesterday that the bill will \u2014 quote \u2014 \u201creduce supply chains\u2019 bottlenecks now and for decades to come\u201d and \u2014 quote \u2014 \u201cease inflationary pressure.\u201dWhen can American families expect to feel that relief?GRANHOLM: Yes, it\u2019s \u2014 this is a really great question, because, obviously, this \u2014 the president is focused really in the short term and in the long term.In the short term, these inflationary pressures, the price of fuel, for example, is high at the top of his list. And so the question is as, we move out of COVID, we know that that has been creating these supply chain bottlenecks. And that includes in the fuel sector as well.And so the Energy Information Agency, which is in the Department of Energy, has its forecast for the winter coming up in two days. And we will be looking to see what the prices are looking like there.But know that the \u2014 all of the economists that the president has been relying on suggest that there is a transitory nature \u2014 nature to the inflation problem as we move through the pandemic. And we want to make sure that we get everybody vaccinated, so that we can unclog the bottlenecks that we have been seeing.BASH: And this bill, almost law, will help?GRANHOLM: The bottlenecks in supply chains, for example, for batteries, for electric vehicles, there is $5 billion that has been put into making sure that we\u2019re actually building the electric vehicles and the guts to those vehicles. That\u2019s in the infrastructure bill. Putting people to work in good- paying jobs will certainly help. So, there\u2019s \u2014 with the two pieces, it\u2019s going to be two million jobs per year that are created, good- paying jobs. And investing in our nation for the future is critical.BASH: And there\u2019s a lot on climate and on electric vehicle chargers.GRANHOLM: Yes.BASH: When will that network be ready? And when do you think the majority of drivers will be using electric vehicles?GRANHOLM: Yes.Well, as you probably know, the auto industry itself has said that they want half of their fleet to be electric, new vehicles sold, by 2030. This is a transition, that, right now, we\u2019re not there yet. But we want to make sure that one of the reasons that people aren\u2019t buying electric vehicles to the extent that they could be is because there aren\u2019t charging stations.And so there is a significant amount in the bipartisan infrastructure bill to build out that network. Right now, charging stations are largely in places where electric vehicles already are. So it\u2019s a chicken and egg. We want to fill that out, so rural areas, poorer areas have access to the fuel that\u2019s necessary.And then, in the Build Back Better agenda, there will be incentives to be able to purchase electric vehicles that will bring the cost down to the same level as gas-powered vehicles. That all \u2014 all of that is happening. This is part of the long term. The build out of this will occur over the next few years.It\u2019s not going to happen in one year. It is a multiyear bill. So this is why the president has his eye on the future to make sure that we get the clean energy necessary to make sure that the United States is taking advantage of this new global economy.Having just come back from Glasgow yesterday, it is really important for us to stake \u2014 to take a stake in this whole clean energy economy. And that\u2019s what this bill starts.BASH: Let me ask \u2014 yes.And let me ask you. You\u2019re talking about all these things that you say that it\u2019s going to do. I don\u2019t need to tell you Tuesday night was not great for Democrats. There is now a Republican-elect governor in Virginia. Republicans almost pulled off an upset in New Jersey.You are a former governor. What lessons do you take away from Tuesday night?GRANHOLM: That we \u2014 thank God, and I think that the Democrats in the House got this message very loud and clear \u2014 pass the bill, right? And pass the second part too, because these contain things that everyday people care about.The governor of Michigan today, Gretchen Whitmer, ran on the phrase, fix the damn roads. And that\u2019s what this bill does. It fixes the damn roads. It fixes your bridges. It gets broadband to real people. It fixes your homes, so that they\u2019re not leaking energy. It invests \u2014 the second part invests in child care, which we know we\u2019re the only industrialized nation that doesn\u2019t help families with child care.These are the basics. Bringing down the costs of living for real people, so that you\u2019re not paying $500 a year to fix your car because you ran over a pothole.BASH: Well, you mentioned cost of living. I got ask you about gas prices.GRANHOLM: Yes.BASH: So, according to AAA, the national average of gas prices is now $3.42 a gallon. Bank of America is predicting crude oil prices could soar another 50 percent by next June.Could the average gas price in America be $4 a gallon in the United States soon?GRANHOLM: Well, we certainly hope not. As I say, the Energy Information Agency is going to put out their forecast this week.The president is all over this. Of course, every president is frustrated because they can\u2019t control the price of gasoline, because it\u2019s a global market. You can call upon increased supply, which he has done. And OPEC is, unfortunately, controlling the agenda with respect to oil prices. OPEC is a cartel and it controls over 50 percent of the supply of gasoline.BASH: Is there anything that the Biden administration can do about OPEC?GRANHOLM: Well, he can call upon them to increase supply. And they have chosen this past week not to do that.So, that is going to increase the choke hold on access to affordable fuel at the pump. And so the president is looking at all of the tools that he has.BASH: What about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?GRANHOLM: That\u2019s one of the tools that he has. And he\u2019s certainly looking at that. And I think we will be looking at that forecast that\u2019s coming out on Tuesday to make\u2026BASH: Should Americans in what will likely be a cold winter \u2014 most of them are \u2014 expect to pay higher prices for heating their homes?GRANHOLM: Yes, this is going to happen. It will be \u2014 it will be more expensive this year than last year. We are in a slightly beneficial position, certainly relative to Europe, because their choke hold of natural gas is very significant. They\u2019re going to pay five times higher.But we have the same problem in fuels that the supply chains have, which is that the oil and gas companies are not flipping the switch as quickly as the demand requires. And so that\u2019s why the president has been focused on both the immediate term and the long term.Let us get off of the volatility associated with fossil fuels and associated with others who don\u2019t have our country\u2019s interests at heart and invest in moving to clean energy, where we will not have this problem. And that\u2019s so much of what these two bills are focused on.BASH: Secretary Granholm, thank you so much for coming in.GRANHOLM: You bet.BASH: Nice to see you. Appreciate it.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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