This week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pointed to the absurdity of the Biden administration’s energy policy after Biden was photographed fist-bumping with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in order to beg them for more oil.
DeSantis said (emphasis added):
“How come it’s wrong to produce our own oil and gas here but you can go to Saudi Arabia and fist bump to try to get it from Saudi? I mean, it makes no sense that we wouldn’t do it. We have opportunities here to be inter-energy independent and not have to worry about any of these other countries; and yet they’re intentionally not doing it. And you can’t run a modern economy on windmills. You just can’t do it.
So we do a lot of solar in Florida. It is a complement. It isn’t displace the traditional forms of energy. And so now we’re in a situation they’re bragging that gas has gone down over the last however many weeks, it’s still over four bucks. Like, I had never seen it over four bucks my whole life living here. That is the problem. It’s just when you’re cranking the printing presses, you’re making energy more expensive, you know, that creates an upward pressure on all of this stuff.”