President Joe Biden | Wikimedia Commons/David Lienemann
President Joe Biden | Wikimedia Commons/David Lienemann
The Biden administration is exploring avenues that would provide motorists with relief at the gas pumps as the rising price of oil has led to record gas prices across the country.
According to the American Automobile Association (AAA), national gas prices are over $4 per gallon with Nevada's average at $5.04 per gallon.
A newly released video from May 2020, shows Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Georgia) explaining to Brionte McCorkle, Georgia Conservation Voters executive director, that the country needed to rely less on fossil fuels and a carbon tax could be a way to achieve that process.
"I think we need to be moving away from an economy that’s based on fossil fuels, that’s the way of the past and we need to be moving toward the future," Warnock said.
When Biden was running for president he noted that the future of energy was not in the fossil fuel sector and said at a campaign event in New Castle, New Hampshire on Sept. 6, 2019, “I guarantee you we’re going to end fossil fuels.”
"Raphael Warnock helped kill the Keystone Pipeline and American energy development—causing Georgia’s gas prices to spike and our country to lose its energy independence," Stephen Lawson, spokesperson for the 34N22 political action committee, told the Washington Free Beacon.
The Keystone XL Pipeline, which was projected to deliver 830,000 barrels from Canada to America, was rejected when President Joe Biden canceled a critical permit during his first day in office, according to CNBC.
According to Fox Business, Biden is examining whether resourcing fossil fuels from Iran, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia is feasible.
"The hypocrisy of this administration to continue to consume fossil fuels knowing full well that we can produce them here cleaner, safer, more environmentally sound and yet go to rely on tyrants around the world to produce them for the United States is just terrible," Montana Sen. Matt Rosendale told Fox Business.
The Biden administration stated late last year that they were not pursuing funding of international fossil fuel efforts in order to lead a worldwide climate change initiative, according to E&E News.
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