00:18:38.740And it was like, it's really these muscle-bound men that are scared little boys.
00:18:43.020But it's like, well, the adorners are literally the scared little boys that are.
00:18:47.360But there's a twist to the story where, of course, these types of individuals who are, of course, meekish, you know, face-to-face, man-on-man,
00:18:58.980have this, like, I mean, just psychotic, genocidal, like, inner desire, basically.
00:19:07.260Well, that's just because of the Holocaust, right?
00:56:45.240Oh, he's totally owning this, you know, this crazy Democrat here.
00:56:49.320But it's like, shouldn't he be able to pull together all this stuff about how she's intentionally talking about how we need to phase out of oil and gas?
00:56:56.740They're not even interested in producing anymore.
00:56:59.320Like, anyway, we'll play the clips again to remind you of, like, what she said in the past.
00:57:15.620Thanks to both of the witnesses for being here.
00:57:17.900Administrator Ruby, let me start with you.
00:57:19.540As you know, we're very proud in the state of Missouri of the work that's done at the Kansas City National Security Campus to support the nation's nuclear enterprise.
00:57:27.180I just wonder if you can give me an update on the NNSA's efforts to ensure that the-
00:57:31.640This is kind of unrelated, but I included a bit so I just can see, so I just can show you that it's like three women that's like responsible for this now.
00:57:38.740The Kansas City Campus has the capacity it's going to need, the additional capacity it's going to need to meet production requirements in the coming years.
00:57:48.000We're also very proud of the Kansas City National Security Campus, and I'm pleased to report we're making good progress on expanding capacity and moving towards the purchase of facilities and land that could help us in the future make sure that we're right-sized at Kansas City.
00:58:16.480So that means they're doing absolutely nothing.
00:58:20.900They're sitting in their offices, not only twiddling their thumbs, they're intentionally doing things that will lead to the collapse of our society.
00:59:08.080And I'm sure you've seen the reporting this morning that now AAA is projecting that gas prices will hit a national average, average of $6 a gallon.
00:59:37.380With all due respect, Madam Secretary, that's utter nonsense.
00:59:40.360In January of 2021, the average gas price in my state was $2.07.
00:59:45.340Eight months later, long before Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, that price was up over 30%, and it has been going up consistently since.
00:59:56.160What are you doing to reverse this administration's policies that are drawing down our own supply of energy in this country that are throttling oil and gas production in the United States of America?
01:01:55.620Now, we're in this kind of, like, in-between.
01:01:57.440Like, they will let you have an electric car for a while, and then the electric prices will go up to such a degree that you have to stop driving that, too.
01:02:05.700Ninety-four percent of the oil and gas executives that were surveyed by the Dallas Fed said that administration policies had nothing to do with the increase in the price of oil.
01:02:15.060I'm not interested in opinions of these people.
01:03:14.520About the increase in demand and the decrease in supply from pulling Russian barrels of oil off the market, thanks to, rightly, the United States saying, we're not going to take Russian oil.
01:06:01.040International allies also released from their reserves to try to balance out supply and demand while the oil and gas companies increase supply.
01:06:08.880And the International—excuse me, the Energy Information Administration has projected that they will have increased in the United States about a million barrels a day by the end of this year.
01:06:20.480We played this before, but just as a reminder, why couldn't Holly bring this up and say, look, you've intentionally said that you want to go get off of oil and gas.
01:06:29.220So, of course, you wouldn't be incentivized to try to increase the production of it.
01:06:33.700But the bottom line is that this president and this administration are looking at every single tool to shield American families from the impact of rising energy prices.
01:07:41.260Maybe it's temporarily down, but that's where it's going, right?
01:07:43.800Here she is, anyway, a while ago, saying the very same thing about, well, if you had an electric car, you'd be fine.
01:07:48.560But the bottom line is that this president—
01:07:51.000Obviously, we have the acute issues with the Cornell pipeline ransomware attack.
01:07:54.780But looking more holistically in a macro view, how does this speed up the efforts at DOE to move in more of a renewable direction, since this is going to have an impact on people at the pump?
01:08:05.740Yeah, I mean, we obviously are all in on making sure that we meet the president's goals of getting to 100% clean electricity by 2035 and net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
01:08:18.640And, you know, if you drive an electric car, this would not be affecting you, clearly.
01:09:07.920So in other words, what they're doing is not even helping, of course.
01:09:11.080Is it time to reexamine these strategies that are decades old, like the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and just come up with something different from managing gasoline?
01:09:21.000Like, what is their—why do we keep doing this?
01:09:24.460Let's get rid of it altogether, right?
01:09:26.120One of the things to come up with is to electrify—