Following up to his press conference on Tuesday calling for Alaska to ramp up the pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin, Governor Mike Dunleavy appeared on Fox News calling out the Biden Administration. Dunleavy states that President Biden’s policies have locked up U.S. energy production and emboldened America’s rivals.
In talking to host Jesse Watters, Gov. Dunleavy highlighted the ever-increasing gasoline prices:
“It’s so absurd. No matter where you turn. Can you imagine for a moment, the Ayatollah in Iran saying to his people, ‘We have to ask the Saudis and the Americans for more oil? Why? Did we run out of oil? No, we just decided that it’s a bad idea to produce.’ It makes zero sense. Alaska, North Dakota, Texas, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, and other states, if we’re allowed to produce, we won’t have this problem.”
Dunleavy promotes domestic energy production to reduce the prices at the pump:
“Keystone Pipeline, what 800,000 barrels of oil we would have had if that was allowed to be built. ANWR as you mentioned, which was passed, by the way in a law. We’re disputing the president’s ability to not enforce that law. It’s just, no matter you turn, it makes no sense at all.”
Dunleavy says that he would like to produce on federal land:
“We have about 500,000 barrels of oil going through the pipeline now. That infrastructure is in place, you don’t have to build any new infrastructure. We could actually have 2 million barrels going through that pipeline which we once did back during the late 80s and 90s. we find it remarkable here in Alaska, we’re scratching our heads because we are an arctic nation, and the Biden Administration does not want oil or gas produced in the arctic. A couple hundred miles west in Yamal in the Russian Arctic, you’ve got a massive gas plant that has about 14,000 wells that flare 24 hours a day, 365. In Alaska, we never did flare our wells on the North Slope. We passed a law many years ago.”
Calls for the Biden Administration to increase domestic energy production are starting to increase as gasoline prices continue to increase. Today’s AAA survey stations survey finds the national gasoline average price for regular is up to $4.31, 59 cents higher than a week ago, 84 cents higher since last month, and $1.50 more than this time last year. Currently in Kenai, the price is $4.79.
