House Dems block energy independence bill; GOP energy expert slams move as 'unconscionable'
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House Democrats on Wednesday blocked consideration of a Republican bill aiming for U.S. energy independence from Russia amid the Ukraine war. A former environmental engineer now running for Congress in New Mexico condemned the move as "unconscionable" in comments to Fox News Digital.
"House Dems just voted against a measure by [House Republicans] to consider the American Energy Independence from Russia Act -- a critical bill that would unleash American energy production," Rep. Stephanie Bice, R-Okla., tweeted Wednesday. "Clearly, Dems don't care about solving our crushing energy crisis. Unbelievable!"
H.R.6858, the American Energy Independence from Russia Act, would approve the Keystone XL pipeline without a presidential permit, direct the president to commission an energy security plan, and open up oil and gas leases across the U.S., among other things. Republicans have emphasized U.S. energy production as the solution to America's importing Russian oil - which President Biden halted in an executive order this month - and to Europe's reliance on Russian oil amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
FILE - Gas prices are seen in front of a billboard advertising HBO's Last Week Tonight in Los Angeles, March 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
Alexis Martinez Johnson, an environmental engineer and Republican candidate for New Mexico's 3rd Congressional District, slammed Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, D-N.M., for voting to block the bill.
"This now marks the second time in as many weeks that Leger Fernandez and her radical left House Democrat allies have blocked a vote on securing energy independence," Martinez Johnson told Fox News Digital. "It is unacceptable and appalling. She is voting with special interests and against the interests of her constituents, of New Mexico, and of our nation."
Alexis Martinez Johnson, candidate for New Mexico's 3rd Congressional District (Alexis Martinez Johnson)
"Here in New Mexico, we are blessed with one of the most energy-rich and energy-diverse states in the country," Martinez Johnson said.
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, New Mexico has "a wealth of fossil fuel, mineral, and renewable energy resources," along with "a significant portion of the nation's known uranium reserves." The state's crude oil, natural gas, and coal production place it in America's top 10 energy-producing states.
Welders work on a joint between two sections of pipe during construction of the Gulf Coast Project pipeline in Prague, Oklahoma, U.S., on Monday, March 11, 2013. The Gulf Coast Project, a 485-mile crude oil pipeline being constructed by TransCanada Corp., is part of the Keystone XL Pipeline Project and will run from Cushing, Oklahoma to Nederland, Texas. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
"We could be powering the nation, creating high paying jobs where they are desperately needed, and reinforcing our national security all through our abundant resources," Martinez Johnson argued. "Instead, we are being drowned in high gas prices while the world becomes less stable every day. It's unconscionable."
"From my perspective as an Environmental Engineer, it is infuriating to see my neighbors suffering because Leger Fernandez refuses to help unlock our state's tremendous energy potential," the Republican added.
Fernandez's office did not immediately respond to an after-hours request for comment.
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"Climate" is a religion for some.
Anthropogenic global warming is reality. Only fossil fuel fools think differently
Ahh....the strawman argument raises it's ugly head.
What do we do between now and when we have cheap readily available "green" energy?
What? The Dems blocked a bill presented by the Repubs? LOL. What is that, getting even? Tit for tat?
That's simply forcing Americans to keep paying more for gas....until they buy some expensive electric cars!
Nah, here in Maryland, they'll be dropping the state tax and that will help. We'll be okay. We're willing to pay more for gas and to not bitch and piss and moan and whine about it incessantly and blame it on President Biden - who IS NOT AT FAULT HERE.
The people will let you know how they feel about that come November.
Stay overconfident and nominating big losers!
No Trumps or Bidens will not be on our ballots.
The gop is now nominating unelectable losers.
And if we really want to feel better we could compare the living to the dead.
What else is Occupy Democrats advertising?
You're meme is wrong. But that's not surprising. Maybe some research will do you well.
Democrats are in for the biggest ass kicking they ever got!
Thank you for the time & research
Not a problem. Anything to call out the propaganda from the left.
Figured I'd use their favorite site to prove them wrong.
The main factor in price disparities between countries is government policy, according to AirInc, a company that tracks the cost of living in various places around the world. Many European nations tax gasoline heavily, with taxes making up as much as 75 percent of the cost of a gallon of gasoline, said a spokesperson for AirInc.
In a few Latin America and Middle-East nations, such as Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, oil is produced by a government-owned company and local gasoline prices are kept low as a benefit to the nation's citizens, he said. All prices updated March, 2005.
Where's the date for your source? It's cut off
There's no date on that source. It's questionable without the exact date. I don't see it. Provide it.
Click the link.
And where's the link to your source?
Don't forget the expensive recharging stations they will need for their homes. Or maybe the Dems expect us all to buy two electric cars and just alternate? I am sure with the parts shortages the auto industry is suffering that will be both realistic and inexpensive for consumers.
From his source article...
All prices updated March, 2005
17 years old!!!!!
I did click the link and it's cut off. Quite convenient don't you think?
I note you conveniently left off the section where the information was updated in 2005.
Note no response after that for the 17 year old information????????????????????????????????????????????????
From your source, Jeremy.
That's 'your' and your research is off by 17 years.
Maybe updating your research to the present time will do you well.
What you proved is that you don't read your own links.
Then take it up with them.
And where's the link to your source?
Here is the current price of gas in the Netherlands.
Netherlands Gasoline prices, 14-Mar-2022
Which means my source is exactly right and Jeremy's IS NOT.
My 1st one is more accurate than the link you provided. Oh wait...
We're taking it up with you for providing seriously outdated information.
My source is accurate and no link is needed.
Your link is 17 years old.
Oh wait . . .
Well you figured wrong, didn't you Jeremy?
Either you're trying to gaslight 'our readers' or you just don't care if what you post here is relevant or accurate.
Ah, that old canard ... Remember when a 48" flat screen was priced in the high $1000's and now they are in the low $100s?
Or you never bothered to read the link that you posted, before posting it.
WTF is that supposed to mean?
The truth and nothing but.
We have 4 of them (Tesla charging stations) in a side lot of a supermarket near me. I never see a car go near them.
No link needed? Then you can shut up about mine.
Mine is truthful. Yours is inaccurate. It's 17 years old.
Just because mine doesn't need a link doesn't mean it's not truthful.
I won't shut up about anything!
I've been proving the left wrong on many occasions. I made 1 mistake and post the wrong info and you all celebrate like you won the Stanley Cup. You haven't won anything.
I'll beleive that when you provide a link. [deleted]
You have never proven us wrong on anything.
You will never admit you're wrong even when it's pointed out to you time and time again.
Your need, just like a lot of those on the 'right', to have the last word, no matter how wrong you are.
I guess you missed 2.1.34 . RIF.
You've made more than one mistake.
Whoop de fucking doo that you owned up to ONE of them.
RIF - I will never layoff - I will always call you out.
Your own links have also proven YOU wrong on many occasions.
I'm not celebrating Jeremy.
That's the difference between you and I Jeremy, I'm not here to 'win' anything, I am here to post facts. Hopefully, this will cause you to vet your sources more carefully in the future before you post them here.
From your link:
All prices updated March, 2005.
lol.
Where is Canada on that list of gas prices? I can remember back to when it was 42 cents a gallon.
You know what. I don't give a rats fat payout what people pay in other countries for gas. I don't live in any of the other countries, I live in the USA . Also how much of the foreign gas prices are due to overly high taxes?
Agree, Prices in the USA are what are important to me.
The gop's lousy bill is chok full of poison pills the gop knew could never get enough votes to pass...
It is just a ploy so the could do what they're doing.
Implying Democrats oppose energy independence.
Democrats want cleaner renewable independence.
The gop bill just throws more money at oil and coal.
And it's a long way from today.
People need the resources we have now!
Yes 'people' do yet the bill doesn't mandate that ONE DROP of those recourses be delegated to the use of the AMERICAN people. In FACT, some of the provision of the bill specifically enable EXPORT.
In short, any and/or all production can be EXPORTED and sold elsewhere, having NO effect on OUR energy independence.
The GOP bill AND its title is a red herring.
Why are they so intense on supporting Canadian oil anyway? I don't understand that at all. The Keystone pipeline does not help US oil independence, does not help unemployment, and will most likely cost us millions of dollars to clean up after leaks.
I don't give a damn that America cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline it agreed to and set Alberta up to build, as long as America repays Alberta the $1.3b they caused Alberta to spend building it. Broken agreements do lead to consequences.
Keystone XL is dead, and Albertans are on the hook for $1 ...
The US didn't cause Alberta to make that investment Buzz.
Alberta made that bet with their eyes wide open:
Another article linked in your source:
After investing billions in project, Kenney marks start of Keystone XL construction in Alberta | CBC News
On Friday, Kenney said his government would not rest until the full project is built and will work hard to pitch the benefits of the project to officials in the U.S.
"We will be reaching out, as we already have... to members of [Biden's] party, many of whom support the project," Kenney said, citing both lawmakers and unions.
He said the investment by his government helped get the project moving and is a "conscious risk" to create "facts on the ground" that could force the hand of any U.S. administration in overturning a project that is already partially constructed.
Oh, okay.
I guess Democrats or more concerned about getting even than taking care of the people that elected them. Hope that works out for them in November.
All the Democrats need to do is EDUCATE the electorate.
MORE US oil does NOT guarantee LOWER gas prices. PERIOD, full stop.
Oil is a commodity traded internationally, and it's price is control by producers and traders, NOT the US government.
There ARE countries who control their domestic gas prices since their production is controlled by the government. Shall we go there goose?
My not being aware of what was in the bill did prevent me from making a more thoughtful comment.
How is it, according to the 'article', that we're facing 'a crushing energy crisis'? Don't tell me to read the 'article', which I did.
So many of these 'articles' simply make statements with absolutely nothing to back them up.
Any thoughts?
Doncha know? Markets provide incentives for companies to up the supply at these prices?
Were market forces suspended by Joe Biden?
Production was down because prices tanked.
Half my friends in Oklahoma were mad about low oil prices. Half are mad now they're up.
Some cases they're the same People Bitching.
"A former environmental engineer now running for Congress in New Mexico condemned the move as "unconscionable" in comments to Fox News Digital."
So what?
You bet! Let them eat cake!
Butt, Ted Cruz of Texas is already claiming all the credit for the bloody high oil prices being credited with pumping billions and billions of new blue state dollars into the Texan's coffers!
Something Marie Antoinette never said ... glad to see you did not attribute it.
Things that will not give us energy independence, nor reduce the cost of gas. This is nothing more than political circus, the same as the Dems putting up a bill to spend more on something they know the Reps won't vote for. Go ahead lemmings and send you sweet cash to your favorite politician so they can keep doing dumb shit like this.
dumb shit? We'll see how many Americans agree in about 8 months.
I'll tell you what, Vic... You give me a cogent, logical reason why YOU believe the XL pipeline contributes to energy independence and I'll donate to Ron Johnson's reelection campaign.
Don't you know that he thinks that Canada is part of the US, that the whole ''Energy Independence'' thingy.
If we could get the oil companies to start pumping from the well they shut down we just might pump enough gas.
Canada Gasoline prices, 14-Mar-2022
Here is a link to an excellent article on the XL pipeline and the amounts of oil coming currently coming from Canada. It just might give our readers that are blindly supporting the XL that they have no idea what they are talking about.
They know that but they continue to spout the lies.
It says the link for the globalpetrolprices is not found but I'm betting your source isn't 17 years old!
That's a part of the problem. We pump out light sweet crude. Our refineries cannot process it. It gets exported outside the country and gas is imported back. What Congress could do, but won't (because they are all invested in O&G) is to pass legislation requiring a healthy percentage of gas is refined here AND provide incentives for companies to do so.
That's strange the other one works but this one doesn't. Simply enough just type in gas prices and the link pops up.
Silence ensues.
If I remember correctly, there are currently some 4000 oil and gas wells that are capped. Meaning they could produce, but they have no wellheads connecting to pipelines.
There could be more production, but that would cut into the executive suites bonuses.
"H.R.6858, the American Energy Independence from Russia Act, would approve the Keystone XL pipeline without a presidential permit, direct the president to commission an energy security plan, and open up oil and gas leases across the U.S., among other things. Republicans have emphasized U.S. energy production as the solution to America's importing Russian oil - which President Biden halted in an executive order this month - and to Europe's reliance on Russian oil amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine."
What a useless pile of shit. The Keystone pipeline would have no benefit to the US WHATSOEVER. Why does that keep being considered???????????????????
SO FUCKING WHAT?
It maybe time to drill for oil. Just sayin'
Do you honestly think the American government is doing the drilling? Why don't you ask the oil companies why they aren't drilling more? They own plenty of land that they haven't bothered doing anything with.
No, but Biden is responsible for the new rules and regulations that make drilling cost prohibitive in many areas. Companies aren't going to drill to lose money; they have stock holders and banks to answer to just like any other major corporation.
Why should we? It isn't our damn job. But it is Biden's job. So why hasn't he sat down with US oil companies and asked them with the price of a barrel of oil so damn high why they haven't increased production? Instead he is sniping at them; and accusing them of price gouging US citizens. Could it be because he already knows the damn answer? That his policies have made it cost prohibitive and the price per barrel will have to climb much higher for them to move. That they will request he temporarily remove the new rules and regulations he put in place. That Biden will then have to face down the hard left wac jobs in his own party to reduce prices.
Land doesn't = oil. Little things like how deep it is buried. What type of sediment and rock; or if there is an untapped water reserve in the path, they have to drill through or around. Is there enough oil present to even bother drilling? Then they have to get funding to move the rig in place; set up all the environmental control measures; and allocate personnel. Too many leftists think they can just drop a rig and start drilling anywhere.
Biden would rather talk to third world dictators that hate the US and offer them anything they want than to actually talk to US oil companies directly. That should tell everyone all they need to know.
You claimed that twice.
Please post a link to these prohibitive policies you speak of. If that information is within a large document [doubtful] please cite the page or quote the paragraph.
I'll wait but won't be holding my breath.
List them and link to them.
Because you're the ones bitching about us needing more drilling in the US.
Then why did they buy/lease that land? Don't you think they do geological surveys at the sites, before they purchase/lease the land????
You could explain HOW US oil companies will control the PRICE of oil Ronin? Please be specific.
We are and can be only as "energy independent" as the oil and gas companies allow us to be. "We" don't own the oil and gas. The companies that drill and extract the oil and gas own it and can then do whatever they want with it and sell it wherever they want to in order to maximize their profits.
Nevertheless, Joe is the Current Occupant and will receive the lion's share of the blame for the worst inflation in 40 years, especially affecting energy prices...just like Trump would have been, had he been reelected.
He will receive the blame from right wingers who never blamed Trump for anything while he was POTUS. That's just what right wingers do. Just like the ones that blame 9/11 on Obama .
Up until the pandemic and the panic of it from the left the economy was excellent, oil prices were down, unemployment was down, inflation was low, we didn't abandon citizens,green card holders and others legally able to enter the US in a country to be hunted down, Russia did not invade an independent country and issue threats to the rest of the world, China did not threaten the rest of the world if they assisted Taiwan militarily.
He moved our embassy in Israel from TelAviv to Jerusalem where it belongs. He nominated three excellent choices for the Supreme Court. He started the border wall. He started deported illegal aliens that had already been told to leave the country. He fat tracked the COVID vaccine with Operation Warp Speed.
He also beat possibly the worst candidate for president the democrats ever proposed.
Just what were we supposed to blame him for?