Petroleum News21 May 2021 10:37
Sullivan blasts Biden’s energy policies
As reported by The Alaska Watchman, Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, took to the U.S. Senate floor on May 13 to call out the Biden administration for its “cavalier and condescending attitude” towards oil and gas development.
In particular, the Alaska Watchman wrote, Sullivan blasted Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm’s recent comments regarding the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline in the wake of a ransomware attack. (Colonial is the largest pipeline system for refined oil products in the United States, capable of moving 3 million barrels of fuel per day between Texas and New York, supplying 45% of the fuel consumed on the Eastern Seaboard between the Gulf Coast and the New York metro area.)
“If you drive an electric car, (fuel shortages) would not be affecting you, clearly,” Granholm said during a White House briefing with reporters about the shutdown and ensuing gasoline shortage and resultant price hikes.
“Of course, the media just let her go. They didn’t ask her if she knew that, just as meat doesn’t come from a grocery store, energy just doesn’t come from a wall,” Sullivan said of the comment. “It just doesn’t appear like magic when you plug into it … it comes from many sources, including natural gas, including oil.”
Sullivan pointed out that all energy, “including alternative energy requires transmission lines. Lines that are also subject to being attacked like the Colonial Pipeline.”
He also noted that the average price of an electric car was “more than $55,000 dollars.”
“Maybe that’s a bargain for her, but for the people the Biden administration is putting out of work that is a huge price tag,” Sullivan said.
He said the Colonial Pipeline should serve as a “warning for America.”
Energy disruptions will become common place if we “don’t change the Biden administrations energy policies for America,” Sullivan said.
- KAY CASHMAN
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