Rep. Lauren Boebert and Alex Epstein and the Moral Case for Fossil Fuels

Press Release

Representative Lauren Boebert invited founder of the Center for Industrial Progress, Alex Epstein, for a follow-up conversation after his testimony to the House Natural Resources' Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.

Rep. Boebert stated: "The left's war against fossil fuels is unceasing. Democrats will do anything to pursue their radical Green New Deal policies, including destroying American energy jobs, decimating rural communities, and taking away reliable energy. Their policies are immorally hurting Americans in pursuit of their radical environmental agenda that doesn't help anyone."

Alex Epstein stated: "The whole administration and Congress [is] dead set on eliminating the oil and gas industry…this is a total, I'd call it a fantasy, but this fantasy is being used to oppress us."

Background:

Rep. Boebert worked as a natural gas product technician, GIS technician, and pipeline integrity coordinator and her husband worked his way up to be a natural gas drilling foreman. Her family and rural community have been positively impacted by responsible energy development, and she fights for other families to also be able to live the American dream.

President Biden took away the American people's voice when--with the stroke of a pen--he unilaterally decimated energy jobs. Speaker Pelosi is continuing to silence Americans by refusing to bring Rep. Boebert's bill, the Protecting American Energy Jobs Act, to the House Floor for a vote. Rep. Chip Roy partnered with Rep. Boebert to lead a discharge petition to force a vote on the Protecting American Energy Jobs Act because the American people deserve to know where their representatives stand on energy issues.

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