[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 40 (Monday, March 7, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H1316-H1317]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      CALIFORNIA'S HIGH GAS PRICES

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Madam Speaker, today, the national average for a gallon 
of gas is a little over $4--$4.06 to be exact. Meanwhile, in my home 
State of California, the average gas price per gallon all across our 
State is $5.34. For the first time ever, the average gas price per 
gallon is over $5 in every single California county.
  Now, I know California brings a lot of pain upon itself, self-
inflicted, but I

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have seen a lot of the mainstream media try to claim that these price 
increases are due to Russia's attack on Ukraine, not the Biden 
administration's anti-energy agenda. If that were true, how has the gas 
price per gallon increased by $1.60 over the last year, not just the 
last two weeks of the Ukraine conflict.
  Since taking office, the Biden administration has frozen all new oil 
and gas projects on Federal lands and implemented extreme financial 
barriers on domestic oil and gas production. On day one, of course, we 
all know he killed the Keystone pipeline, which could be supplying 
830,000 barrels of oil from Canada to U.S. refineries, more than what 
Russia imports to us.
  In his first week, we had an executive order stopping new leases on 
Federal lands, so we need to replace Russian energy with our own 
production.

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