Gas in Alabama is more than a dollar higher than it was at this time in 2021. These costs concern Rep. Gary Palmer (R-AL).
“People are getting crushed by the increased cost of not only energy, but everything else- groceries, clothing,” Palmer said. “It’s literally taking people’s disposable income right out of their pockets.”
Palmer is a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. He said voters will be thinking about those kitchen table issues as they head to the polls in November and he hopes that will lead to the House and Senate flipping in the 2022 midterm election.
“I think, as a majority, we’ve got to lay the framework, lay out the framework for what the country would look like when Republicans are back in control of both the Congress and the White House,” Palmer said. “And I think we can do that.”
One change Palmer would like to see even sooner is for the United States to become more energy independent.
“We have an inexhaustible supply of oil and natural gas. There’s one formation out west that holds 3 trillion barrels of recoverable oil,” Palmer said. “That’s three times what the entire world has used in the last 100 years.”
“We can do things to address climate change without literally setting ourselves up for an economic disaster,” Palmer said, adding that the current energy policy also impacts the Russian war in Ukraine.
“We have not only weapons, in terms of military terms, but we have an enormous weapon in our arsenal of democracy. And that weapon consists of our oil and gas resources,” Palmer said. “We need to unleash that and help these people.”
