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Rep. Yvette Herrell (R-N.M.) said the pandemic and Russia invading Ukraine have revealed why the United States needs to create energy independence and the most important medicines here in our own country.
“We need to create and substantiate our energy independence, which we had just a few short months ago,” Herrell told host of NTD’s Capitol Report Steve Lance during a recent interview, “so we are not reliant on Russia or other foreign countries for oil.”
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, “New Mexico had record-high production of crude oil and natural gas in March 2021, averaging 1.16 million barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil and 6.19 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of natural gas.”
Herrell introduced the American Energy Security and Transparency Act, regulations that would assist the United States to accomplish energy self-reliance in the wake of current sanctions that had to be imposed on Russian oil.
She likewise urged Joe Biden to revive the Keystone XL Pipeline job that would certainly have transported much-needed oil from Canada to the United States, including that the United States produces oil with less pollution than other nations (such as Russia).
Biden canceled the Keystone pipeline in 2021 through executive order (EO), which in 2017, President Trump had resumed after it was canceled by President Obama, also through executive action.
According to a 2017 State Department report, construction would add $3.4 billion to the nation’s outcome. That’s concerning 0.02 percent of the $18 trillion U.S. economic situation. They also estimated that Keystone XL would certainly create $70 million in new state and regional taxes along the course throughout construction and also $55.6 million in real estate tax once oil started streaming.
The pipeline would have carried over 800,000 barrels of oil per day and carried it more safely and quickly than rail or truck transport.
“Since taking office, the Biden Administration has yet to hold an onshore oil and gas lease sale, in direct violation of the federal law,” Herrell said in a press statement. “The Department of the Interior (DOI) is also stalling hundreds of permits for energy operations on federal lands, which is artificially limiting our energy supply.”
Biden, along with Keystone, in the same EO halted all drilling on federal land up until analysis might be completed, which some states have sued the administration for, claiming the EO was unlawful.
Herrell also cautioned against relying on an additional foe, China‘s Communist Party.
“I think as a nation, we need to be looking at the bigger picture and ensure that history doesn’t repeat itself, as in China, looking at Taiwan, looking back now to see what Russia has done with Ukraine.”
“But one of the things I think we have to and must do is ensure that we are not reliant on our adversaries for medical equipment, pharmaceuticals, which we are right now with China. So, let’s bring that manufacturing home, let’s ensure that we are putting all of our assets in America, investing in Americans, and utilizing the resources and the bright minds we have here.”
China is the dominant supplier of thousands of medicines found in U.S. houses and also health centers, from prescription antibiotics to chemotherapies, from HIV/AIDS drugs to antidepressants and also pain relievers. Where Russia is likewise the predominant supplier of European energy.
Herrell presented The Protecting American Lives Act, which requires the Food as well as Drug Administration to examine which policies stop the United States from generating important medicine right here in the house.
H/T The Epoch Times
