'War On American Energy': Bill Cassidy Tears Into Kamala Harris For Supporting LNG Export Pause

4 months ago

During remarks on the Senate floor, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) spoke about LNG export bans under the Biden-Harris Administration.

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00:00Madam President, the American people understand the importance of energy.

00:04It keeps the lights on, puts food on the table.

00:07And living in Louisiana, you happen to know the person who works at the liquefied natural gas plant

00:11or at the oil rig who produced the energy.

00:14He's your neighbor.

00:16That's why the Biden-Harris administration, their pause upon LNG export permits in January,

00:24it was to me clear who they'd be putting out of a job.

00:28Last month, the American people gained a major victory.

00:31A U.S. District Judge in Lake Charles ruled that the LNG pause was, quote,

00:36completely without reason or logic.

00:43The court ruling reinstated sanity at a time when the Biden-Harris administration

00:48adopted the most absurd arguments to please radical environmental donors.

00:53The fact of the matter is the Biden-Harris pause was a clear attempt to undermine

00:57USG liquefied natural gas production and export by putting the kibosh on these new exports

01:04and depriving allies of freedom fuel.

01:08Both President Biden and Vice President Harris have not been shy about their desire

01:12to kill American energy production.

01:14Vice President Harris has called for a total ban on fracking,

01:18adopting the leave it in the ground mentality of the far left,

01:22even going so far as to blow up the filibuster to pass the Green New Deal.

01:27That's the now President of the Senate would have us in the filibuster to kill American energy,

01:35help China, Russia, and Iran, and raise prices on working families.

01:40I don't know whether we should be more concerned about the fact that they say leave it in the ground,

01:45despite knowing that renewable resources can't meet U.S. energy demand,

01:49or that they say it thinking that it may actually work.

01:52Curtailing U.S. natural gas production will not lower global greenhouse gas emissions,

01:58but unleashing American energy will.

02:01U.S. liquefied natural gas is one of the cleanest burning fuels in the world

02:07in terms of life cycle emissions.

02:09In fact, natural gas is principally responsible for U.S. emissions being lower today

02:15than they were in 1988, despite a much larger economy and population.

02:20And just because we limit the supply of natural gas, the demand does not go away.

02:26The demand instead will turn to other sources of energy.

02:29We saw this in Europe after the invasion of Ukraine.

02:32European countries refused to buy Russian natural gas, and I applaud that decision.

02:38But with the Biden-Harris LNG export pause,

02:41the world must turn to dirtier alternatives like oil or coal purchased from dictators

02:46or despots in Russia and Iran.

02:48It was as if Putin himself called up the vice president, called up the president,

02:53and said let's put a pause on this because, by golly, this is going to help the Russian economy.

02:59Now, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to know that as coal use goes up,

03:03global emissions increase.

03:05The administration's thinly veiled plan to reduce global emissions actually backfires.

03:11It backfires because if other countries don't get our natural gas, they burn their coal.

03:16Global emissions increase.

03:18The administration's war on American energy didn't just affect our allies.

03:23It also wages a war on American workers.

03:26Two-thirds of U.S. liquefied natural gas is exported from Louisiana,

03:31providing thousands of Louisianians with good-paying jobs.

03:35The Biden-Harris freeze impacted 18 LNG export facilities,

03:3912 of which were going to be built in my state.

03:42Now, to be built is the key phrase here because it didn't just affect energy jobs.

03:47It affected construction jobs as well.

03:50Because the Biden-Harris administration wants to appease the rich climate lobby,

03:55the future and financial security of construction workers in Louisiana

04:00and across the country is thrown into limbo.

04:03Now, even though we have this court ruling, we're not out of the woods.

04:07The federal court's ruling brought common sense back,

04:09but the Department of Energy can still slow walk permits,

04:13and this is something Congress must watch closely.

04:17This is something Congress is already looking to address

04:20with bipartisan support for setting a time limit

04:23on how long the Department of Energy can take to review new permits,

04:27a shot clock, if you will.

04:29When we unleash American energy production and LNG exports,

04:33it creates high-paying jobs, it boosts our economy,

04:36and it strengthens the U.S. and the national security of our allies.

04:40It denies income to Putin and drives down global greenhouse gas emissions.

04:46These should all be bipartisan goals.

04:49Common sense prevailed in the courts.

04:51Now it's time for common sense to return to the White House.

'War On American Energy': Bill Cassidy Tears Into Kamala Harris For Supporting LNG Export Pause

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