ICYMI: Rep. Fry: American Energy Production is Key to Lowering Costs

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) Republican Study Committee Member Russell Fry (SC-07) is highlighting Republican efforts to achieve American energy independence, lower costs for families, and strengthen America’s global leadership. 

In a recent Sun News op-ed, Rep. Fry explains how affordable, reliable energy powers every sector of the American economy. However, Democrats’ America-Last energy agenda weakened U.S. energy security by opposing critical pipeline projects, restricting domestic oil and gas leasing, imposing burdensome regulations, and halting new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export approvals. 

As Rep. Fry points out, “When Washington tells American energy producers they cannot build, drill, transport, or export, the demand does not disappear. Instead, production, jobs, and geopolitical leverage simply move elsewhere, alongside American influence.” 

The Congressman outlines how Republicans, working alongside President Trump, are restoring American energy dominance and unleashing American innovation: “Thankfully, President Trump and Republicans in Congress recognize this reality. We are working to reverse years of harmful anti-American energy policy by restoring an agenda centered on energy abundance, domestic production, and American competitiveness. This is the same principle behind the Working Families Tax Cuts; Americans should keep more of what they earn and pay less for what they need. Energy is no different. When we lower the cost of power, we lower the cost of everything it touches, from manufacturing to groceries to the paycheck it takes to afford them… America cannot lead the future by shrinking the very energy system that powers it or by letting energy costs price American workers and manufacturers out of the industries we should be leading.”

Read the full op-ed below or in the Sun News by clicking here.