Energy Brief

This is from a gas station in Phoenix yesterday: $6.49 for a gallon of gas. All because Trump started war with no plan and no idea how it would affect everyday Americans. I'm fighting to suspend the federal gas tax to bring families some relief, but what they really need is a president focused on lowering their costs.

Quotes I heard at CERAWeek Day 3: “In this country, we are blessed with an abundance of supply. Our challenges are more around infrastructure, coordination, planning, market rules, how to regulate it. It’s eminently doable and knowable, and we can execute against it.” - Jim Kerr, Chairman, President and CEO, Southern Company Gas. “In Storm Fern, we had about 90% of the electricity in New York being provided by gas. But as most people are aware, we have some upstream gas pipeline constraints, which makes it very difficult to get the gas flowing into the right location. So the cost of not having that capacity in the system does translate directly to affordability.” - Zoë Yujnovich, CEO, National Grid. “AI is not going to connect a meter, it’s not going to lay plastic pipe, and it’s not going to dig the hole. It’s going to maybe give us some ideas about how to do that better.” - Michele Harradence, Executive Vice President and President, Gas Distribution and Storage, Enbridge. “It’s not just drill, baby drill. It’s mine, baby mine. And from the U.S. Geological Survey, we say, map, baby map.” - Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior and Chair, National Energy Dominance Council. “My message to Congress was, and is this: if anybody wants me to regulate the heck out of greenhouse gas emission standards and impose trillions of dollars of regulation, well then introduce a bill, have a debate, get the votes. I will follow the law, whatever the law is.” - Lee Zeldin, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. “The recovery rates in the unconventional business today are single-digit percentages. We’ve set a goal of doubling that.” - Dan Ammann, President, ExxonMobil Upstream Company. “One [LNG] tanker is enough for a million European homes to heat for a month.” - Jack Fusco, President and CEO, Cheniere Energy. “You could say we went from zero to hero without raising prices.” - Amy Andryszak, President and CEO, Interstate Natural Gas Association of America. “Ten years ago, we were building three times the amount of electric transmission lines that we will build this year. Ten years ago, we were building three times the amount of pipeline capacity that we will this year, at a time when we need more than we’ve ever needed.” - Chad Zamarin, President and CEO, Williams. “If you’re anti-gas, you’re pro-poverty.” - Greg Ebel, President and CEO, Enbridge. “I have to tell you, we have absolutely hit a full intersection of computer chip design, of computing, with energy...We are energy gated.” - Mark Papermaster, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, AMD. “10,000 electricians are retiring every year. And guess how many new electricians are applying for jobs? 7,000.” - Amanda Peterson Corio, Global Head of Data Center Energy, Google. “The shale gas revolution basically made America the power epicenter of the world, and ultimately, to provide power at the scale that a company like Google would need, it’s really only two sources: gas or nuclear.” - Toby Neugebauer, Co-Founder and CEO, Fermi America. “Two to three years ago, gas was not on the team. I would not have been invited to this kind of discussion.” - Karim Amin, Member of the Executive Board, Siemens Energy.

🚨 The Supreme Court in Maryland just tossed Democrats' push to undermine US energy. In a 3-2 opinion, the court said NO to attempts by blue jurisdictions to control and set national energy policy through lawfare supported by the liberal dark money machine.

Today, I am creating a new position in my administration focused on tackling high energy costs — Virginia's Chief Energy Officer. As Virginians across the Commonwealth are feeling the squeeze of rising bills, we are working to deliver affordable, reliable energy.

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Trump Interior Sec. Doug Burgum MIC DROPS Gavin Newsom after Gavin blames Trump for his nearly $7 gas prices "That is SOMETHING coming from California! Under Newsom, California used to have 40 refineries. Now they have 8, 2 MORE are CLOSING!" "They're going to be down to 6 with Chevron and Valero closing!" "California is the most energy dependent state in America. 63% of their oil gets imported." "Now they're going to be importing refined product into San Francisco Bay and into Long Beach every day, just to keep their fleet." "They have the largest number of internal combustion cars in America, in California, more than any other state even has vehicles. And of course, they've been trying to eliminate those, which then puts us dependent on China." "I mean, their energy policies are as CRAZY as Europe. And part of the reason why their prices are so high is they've restricted supply and killed their own economy!" 🫳🏻🎤