House majority leader Scalise blasts Biden for raiding strategic reserves, attacking American energy

'The only check and balance to high prices of oil is a free-market producing America. By the way, if you want to hide behind the green new deal and global warming and whatever other name they attach to it, climate change, they change the name every couple years because the American people figure out that all it is an attack on American energy. So the price keeps going up. We are shutting off the cleanest producing country in the world. You want to lower carbon emissions in the world, produce more oil in America. It's not just about creating more jobs, it's not just about our national security, Mr. Speaker, it's about actually reducing global emissions. China, as this bill addresses, President Biden selling our strategic reserves to China, China's building about a coal plant a week. A new coal plant every week. Dramatically increasing carbon emissions while President Biden shuts down American manufacturing and production. Shuts down oil. Which, by the way, we were reducing emissions during those times when we were producing energy. Over and over again, raided SPR, raided SPR, raided SPR, the prices kept going up. What went down is America's national security.' Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, gave a passionate speech during the debate on a House bill to ban oil exports to China on Jan 12, 2023.