Sec. Granholm: Saying that More Drilling, Reopening Keystone Will Lower Gas Prices Is ‘the Same Old D.C. BS’

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GRANHOLM: "We can’t do it if we’re fighting internal battles. There are some here, or maybe at least lobbyists or Beltway politicians who seem to think that this is the time to recycle old talking points. You know this, I mean, people are arguing that if a pipeline that wouldn’t have even been in operation by now were still under construction, the situation with today’s oil prices would be different, or that President Biden's policies have decreased production when we’re actually at record levels of natural gas and LNG, and we’ll be at record levels of oil production hopefully by next year. We all know that that is the same old D.C. BS. And I’m asking, I know you are, aren’t we finally ready to work together to confront this moment of crisis and to come out stronger on the other side? I’m here to tell you that the Department of Energy and the entire Biden administration is ready to work with you to seize the moment of opportunity with clean energy, and that means deploying technologies as fast as possible."