Florida Rep. Kat Cammack accused President Joe Biden of getting in bed with “murderous dictators over … domestic energy producers” amid record gas prices.
“We’re not tapping capabilities we have here in the United States,” Cammack said Tuesday. “Instead, this president is turning to dictators.”
Gas prices are at historic levels, with crude oil prices higher than they’ve been since 2008. The price of gas has risen 10 cents in the past 24 hours and $1 since March 2021.
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“When is the last time that Biden or any one of his staffers or Nancy Pelosi and her cronies actually went and fueled up at the gas pump? I don’t think they have because if they had, they would know that, nationally, we’re looking at $4 on average a gallon,” Cammack said. “We know people on fixed incomes. That is exactly where they decide: ‘Do I buy groceries or do I buy gas?'”
Fox News host Elizabeth MacDonald read Cammack a quote from former President Barack Obama in 2009 to reemphasize how the Democratic Party feels about increasing costs of living: “Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket, regardless of what I say of whether coal is good or bad, because I’m capping greenhouse gases. Coal power plants, natural gas, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.”
“When you said that, it just absolutely sent shivers up the back of my neck,” Cammack responded.
The solution to the problem, according to the Floridan congresswoman, is to produce more energy domestically. Cammack pointed out that “not a single permit is authorized under this administration for energy production” in the United States as thousands of leases allegedly wait for permits.
Cammack accused Biden of “missing his pen” when it comes to executive orders that could lower gas prices, opting instead to rely on exported oil and gas.
“He found it on day one killing the Keystone pipeline,” Cammack said. Meanwhile, in 2018, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and other Democratic lawmakers attempted to pressure former President Donald Trump to sign an executive order lowering gas prices.
Cammack pointed to the Midland Over Moscow Act, introduced by Rep. August Pfluger, a Texas Republican, earlier last month. The bill would impose sanctions related to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, meant to help export natural gas from Russia into Europe, while providing an expedited approval process for natural gas imports and exports in or out of the U.S.
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The bill currently has 48 Republican cosponsors, most of whom represent Midwestern states, with the majority hailing from Texas.
