While many factors impact the price of gas at the pump, Jerry Simmons, president and CEO of Domestic Energy Producers Alliance, says that a leading factor contributing to the energy crisis the country is now facing is the many years of Democrat-backed anti-fracking policies and President Joe Biden’s pledge to wean America off fossil fuels. “Joe Biden, the candidate, over and over again, he said, ‘We’re going to do away with fossil fuels, we’re going to end oil and gas,’” Simmons told NTD’s Capitol Report in an interview about the impact of such policies on the cost of fuel at the pump. Before the global energy situation got even more dire following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the resulting blacklisting of Russian oil, most countries around the world were already experiencing shortages of oil coming out of the pandemic. OPEC+ was restricting oil supply, and despite U.S. calls to increase …