Senators on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s Energy Subcommittee heard testimony July 13 on the drivers of high energy prices, a key issue for Americans across the country as inflation rages and November midterms loom closer.
In May of this year, Rasmussen Reports found that 82 percent of likely voters in the United States considered themselves concerned about increasing gasoline and energy costs. Fully 60 percent rated themselves “very concerned.”
The same poll found that half of likely voters think catastrophic impacts from climate change are probable over the coming century.
“Our reliance on fossil fuels even when we produce it here means we will be stuck paying the prices set in the global market, subject to OPEC and affiliate producers like Russia,” said Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), who chairs the subcommittee, in her opening testimony….