Former Trump administration adviser Larry Kudlow mocked Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan after she called to tap into the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve. Democrats are desperate to lower gas prices before the midterms in hopes of saving the election but you have to ask, at what cost? This is the Northeast’s winter reserves and winter has just begun.
“Up in New Hampshire, for example, this is so important, electricity rates are soaring, blackouts are threatening, natural gas and home heating oil is short. So what is Democrat Sen. Maggie Hassan’s solution?” Kudlow asked. “Sell more out of Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Also, use the home heating reserve. That’s the wrong answer, that’s a Biden answer. People don’t believe in Biden’s answers anymore.
“He [Biden] is incapable of telling the truth about the economy or the energy situation,” Kudlow added.
Hassan called on the Biden administration to release oil from the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve in September with 11 other Senators from New England in order to address surging energy prices. In New Hampshire, home heating oil averages $5.728 a gallon, according to the Energy Information Administration.
Biden can blame Russia and private companies for the high prices in fuel but experts say that it’s Biden’s hostility towards oil that jacked the price up. Biden’s Ahab approach to green energy amid a crisis has put the north under pressure while it already struggles through the winter months. Some started have already begun ration oil as families try to heat their homes, according to Bloomberg.
“How is it that the entire Democratic Party, really, it seems like the entire Democratic Party will not recognize the power, the efficiency, and the importance of the American oil and gas business?” Kudlow asked. “It is like the progressives are suffering from this thick blanket of amnesia that we have a fossil fuel industry at all. That the industry is capable of solving problems, like high prices or fuel shortages.”
“It employs 11 million people. It impacts literally hundreds and hundreds of everyday necessities in our lives. It may be the single most important, urgent answer to the crisis of stagflation,” Kudlow said.
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What a potentially disastrous decision amid an oil crisis. Thus far, Hassen’s calls to tap winter reserves have been ignored, for now, but this just shows how desperate the left is to maintain power.