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Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) said Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox and Friends” that President Joe Biden’s energy policy is a “moron-athon” while discussing the administration’s plan to implement new regulations on U.S. oil and gas to prevent methane leaks.

“Mitch McConnell knows he doesn’t have my support,” Kelly Tshibaka said, noting the GOP leader’s support of Lisa Murkwoski.

Wesley Hunt, Republican nominee to represent Texas’s 38th district, said crime, inflation, and the border are low-hanging fruit for victory.

Oil and gas company Valero Energy slammed California as a “hostile regulatory environment for refining” after the state’s Energy Commission accused them of price fixing.

Republican Washington state U.S. Senate candidate Tiffany Smiley is calling for a return to American energy independence, according to her energy and environment policy proposal obtained exclusively by Breitbart News.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Thursday the United States must look to “the wind, sun, and other clean sources of energy” instead of relying on oil and gas.

Japan’s government said this week it spotted three Chinese warships “sailing an unusual route around the archipelago,” the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Wednesday, noting that the sighting comes amid heightened tensions between Tokyo and Beijing over maritime territorial disputes.

The EU agreed to embargo two thirds of Russian oil immediately with the aims of reducing imports by 90 per cent at the end of the year.

The Conservative government of Boris Johnson will impose a 25 per cent windfall tax on oil and gas companies to provide public handouts.

Environmentalists outraged by Biden’s decision to resume federal oil and gas leasing have not read the fine print. Biden actually eliminated 80 percent of the land available for leasing and increased the cost of operating those leases by 50 percent. 

If you want to know why the supply of oil is responding so sluggishly to demand, direct your attention to the explosive popularity of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing.

California Assemblyman and Democrat candidate running for the U.S. House of Representatives, Rudy Salas, missed two votes in the recent weeks to temporarily suspend the state’s gas tax, as gas prices have skyrocketed in the Golden State and across the country.

The Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC), a state Republican-aligned campaign arm, launched a series of digital ads in Democrat states to emphasize their failed far-left policies at the state level that have crippled domestic energy production.

A majority of voters in the United States support the federal government opening up public lands for oil drilling as one method of reducing the skyrocketing price of gas, according to a Morning Consult/Politico poll.

An overwhelming majority of voters in the United States support a temporary break from paying federal and state taxes on gasoline as one method of reducing the skyrocketing price of gas, according to a Morning Consult/Politico poll.

The latest poll from the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) of 77 battleground congressional districts across the country showed that the Democrats face headwinds with voters as they are being held responsible for record-high inflation, skyrocketing gas prices, and out of control spending.

Permits for oil and gas development “have been coming out of the Biden administration slower than” during the Trump years, oil executive Dan Eberhart said.

“Put drop boxes next to the pump and see who gets elected,” Andrew Wilkow said, adding, “Start voting at gas stations.”

In 2020, Trump notably predicted that gas prices under Biden would reach $7.00 per gallon, which came true this week.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) told reporters on Tuesday that American energy should compensate for President Biden’s largely symbolic ban of Russian energy exports. 

Annual U.S. imports of oil from Russia rose 40.6 percent during Joe Biden’s first two years when compared to the Trump administration’s years.

Josh Mandel said oppression of political dissidents in Canada was a “beta test” for incoming persecution of their American counterparts.

Gazprom is supplying Russian gas to Europe “as per normal,” the Russian state-owned energy corporation announced Wednesday, despite the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Why did Putin invade Ukraine now? One reason is that he could afford to thanks to money Biden inadvertently helped him accumulate.

Josh Mandel said Joe Biden is “personally [and] financially corrupted” by his family’s financial dealings with China.

Joe Biden is following Jimmy Carter’s playbook of restricting production, increasing inflation, and practicing demagoguery.

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Hallie Jackson Reports,” White House National Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy responded to concerns that increased regulations will cause increased gas and oil prices by stating “There’s a place for” regulation and “We’re going to use it.” McCarthy also touted hearings with oil executives on Capitol Hill as “a day of reckoning” for the oil and gas industry.

A recent report from CNBC indicated Americans are paying the highest prices for gas in the last seven years, and some cities have gas prices as high as $5 per gallon.

Ryan Zinke said Joe Biden took America from “energy dominance” to being “held hostage by foreign entities for our energy needs.”

Saudi Aramco confirmed on Wednesday that a “limited amount” of its company data held by third-party contractors was recently leaked amid reports that an unidentified extortionist is holding a terabyte of the Saudi Arabian oil giant’s data hostage and demanding a $50 million ransom for its deletion, the Associated Press (AP) reported.

K.T. McFarland noted how the Biden administration’s energy policies benefit Russia by driving up the price of oil in an interview on Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with special guest host Joel Pollak.

Former President Donald Trump released a statement Monday afternoon that condemned Sen. Lisa Murkowski as the Washington Democrats’ “best friend,” reaffirming his vow to “campaign against her.”

Companies operating in rich, successful capitalist economies including Britain, Australia, Germany, France, Japan, Canada and especially the U.S. must prepare for an onslaught of activist-driven climate litigation, a report released Friday warns.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – A Dutch court has ordered Royal Dutch Shell to cut its carbon emissions by net 45% by 2030 compared to 2019 levels in a landmark case brought by climate activist groups. The ruling Wednesday by

Raising the price of gasoline is part of Democrats’ plan to make driving unaffordable for most Americans, Charlie Hurt said.

Plumbers from out of state are needed in Texas to help repair frozen pipes, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said on Friday.