Source: United States Senator for West Virginia Shelley Moore Capito
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) joined Fox Business Network’s Varney and Co. today to discuss the importance of energy independence, and key takeaways from her recent trip to Eastern Europe to assess the humanitarian impact and response to the war in Ukraine.
HIGHLIGHTS:
ON BIDEN’S ANTI-AMERICAN ENERGY POLICIES: “The government is definitely in the way of energy production in West Virginia, both on the coal side and the natural gas side. We can’t get a major MVP [Mountain Valley Pipeline] pipeline sited and that’s a major issue. And then the all government effort to stop the production of fossil fuels has really, really hurt West Virginians. Interesting though, Europe wants our coal…and they know that they want baseload energy and that’s what we have.”
AMERICANS UNDERSTAND IMPORTANCE OF ENERGY INDEPENDENCE: “I think the American public is definitely waking up. With the high price of gasoline, the high price of heating your home, and we’re getting ready to go into summer again, and the high cost of the air conditioning. And then we see what’s going on in Europe. We know that the weakness that some of the nations in Europe are feeling because the reliance on Russia. And so we know we can be energy independent, the American people know what that means. So, I think even though these forces are very, very strong, the American general public citizens is much, much stronger than any kind of political force that can be mustered by either the environmentalists or others who want to keep everything in the ground.”
ON THE UKRAINIAN REFUGEE SITUATION: “Well, it’s very sad to talk with a young mother of a six- and an eight-year-old who had to leave because of the dangers, because of the sirens. She left her husband. She left her parents. She left her home and she was pleading for help. And she’s going off to the UK to try to have some temporary facilities that she can live in with a friend. So, it’s just unimaginable. I think the interesting thing we learned is not only have over four million left the country, but that remaining 14 million are people that are displaced within the country. And I don’t know what the conditions are there. I can tell you that Poland has really stepped up. They’re treated very humanitarianly. There’s lots of meals and things for the kids to do while they’re waiting. And it’s very, very orderly. I was impressed with the way they’re moving through there. But so, so sad to see those women and children and elderly that can no longer go home.”
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