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J.H,1 … J.G.,0

To say that the score was actually 1-0, would be kind to JG, as JG got pummeled regularly throughout the contest on 5/19. The venue was Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, with Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm (JG) attempting to answer questions from Missouri Senator, Josh Hawley (JH).

From Townhall:

“On 5/19 in a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm(JG) repeatedly refused to acknowledge that the Biden administration’s war on U.S. energy had caused gas prices to rise since the president took office and started cracking down on domestic energy production.

Even after Republican Senator Josh Hawley (JH) of Missouri laid out the proof of the Biden administration’s anti-fossil fuel policies that have limited supply and driven up costs, Granholm still wouldn’t accept any responsibility for the soaring cost of gas as the national average for regular unleaded hit another all-time high on that morning.”

JG repeatedly attempted to blame everything on Putin, Ukraine, etc, but JH wasn’t buying any of her drivel.

Oh nonsense,” Hawley interjected. “With all due respect, Madam Secretary, that’s utter nonsense.”

“In January of 2021, the average gas price in my state was $2.07,” Hawley reminded Granholm. “Eight months later, long before Vladimir Putin invaded, that price was up 30 percent and has been going up consistently since. What are you doing to reverse this administration’s policies that are drawing down our own supply of energy in this country, that are throttling oil and gas production in the United states of America – what are you doing about it?” he asked. 

“From January to August, the price of gasoline was up over 30 percent in my state alone,” he reiterated. “It has been a continuous upward tick since then, and here’s what your president did when he first came to office. He immediately reentered the Paris Climate Accord, he canceled the Keystone Pipeline, he halted leasing programs in ANWR, he issued a 60-day halt on all new oil and gas leases and drilling permits on federal lands and waters — that’s nationwide, that accounts, by the way, for 25 percent of U.S. oil production — he directed federal agencies to eliminate all supports for fossil fuels, he imposed new regulations on oil and gas and methane emissions,” Hawley noted. “Those were all just in the first few days, are you telling me that’s had no effect on our energy supply?” he questioned.

JG did not have any logical answer to JH’s questions, and she kept referring to a survey of oil and gas executives by the Dallas Fed.

“I’m not interested in opinions of these people, I’m interested in the facts,” Hawley said. “Are you telling me that these policies had no effect…Madam Secretary, are you telling me, under oath, that these policies had no effect?” he asked again. 

“I’m telling you that 94 percent of the oil and gas industry executives said that they had no effect, so no they did not,” Granholm stated again. 

JG is a graduate of Harvard Law. It had always been my impression that Harvard Law thoroughly went over “perjury.” Has JG forgotten what she should have been taught? Perhaps she was absent from class that day!

5/26/23

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