and we saw 71,000 jobs across the energy sector go away because of president biden s deranged climate policies. alexandria: there is divide over how to deal with oil companies amid a crisis, bill impose profit above a certain price. critics worry this will lead to decrease in production and that is departure from what jennifer graham did this week, call on the oil and gas industry to help out by increasing production. todd: let us bring in joe concha, you heard alexandria hoff s piece, there is a receive heidi heitkamp is former north dakota senator, she is from north dakota, where the oil comes from. jennifer rubin of the washington post tweeting, voters in a stupid nut shell,
across the energy sector go away because of president biden s deranged climate policies. gas is more than 4.30 a gallon on average and the price of oil per barrel is up to $110. a handful of democratic governors are asking congress to suspend the federal gas tax but so far there is no white house commitment to that critics are warning that could effect coo effect repair projects. oil producers are calling on president biden just to cut red tape and let them drill. but there are now some shrugging of this all off. believing that high prices are in the eye of the beholder. can i just say that is an artificially low price that you are starting from. and when you do inflation adjustment, this isn t the highest price we have had in the past 20 years. we are shocked because we got used to $2 gas. the president is going to give a speech today here in town at a conference.
ike said americans, they are simply spoiled by lower fuel costs, listen. can i just say that is artificially low price that you are starting from and when you do inflation adjustments, this is not the highest price we paid in the last year. we are shocked because we got used to to dollar gas. it was nice. democrats pointed to external facts and rising gas prices have expected progression with record inflation and bidens green push. the president biden did cancel the keystone xl pipeline project and we saw about 71,000 jobs across the energy sector go away because of president biden deranged claimant policies. there are a few democrats to boost economic gas, colleagues in congress with an idea to potentially do the opposite and new proposal would put 50% tax