Energy and Environment

President Biden has been desperately searching for ways to lower record-high gas prices, yet instead of addressing the root causes, he continues to slap a bandage on this self-inflicted crisis by tapping into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). This is the third time Biden has tapped into this emergency reserve since coming into office.

Before President Biden took office, our country was energy independent. In 2019, we became a net total energy exporter for the first time since 1952. The United States was not reliant on foreign adversaries for our energy needs. Instead, we were producing clean, affordable, and secure energy to fuel our nation.

If you drove across our state of Oklahoma, you would see nearly half a million wells that have been drilled into open fields. While they support hundreds of thousands of jobs and contribute to producing clean American energy when active, abandoned wells and legacy sites have become a major problem for landowners.