I didn’t come to the Senate from politics — I came from the field. I started as an engineer in Oklahoma’s energy sector and eventually led a company building and maintaining critical infrastructure. That experience taught me a simple lesson: Energy abundance is meaningless if you can’t move it to where it’s needed.
Every time tensions rise in the Middle East, Washington sounds the alarm about high gasoline prices. Although these concerns are real, they often obscure a more fundamental truth: The biggest driver of high energy costs for many Americans isn’t foreign conflict; it is domestic failure.
The U.S. is an energy superpower, producing more oil and natural gas than any country in the world. Yet millions of Americans pay prices that resemble those in energy-scarce regions because we lack the infrastructure to deliver that supply.
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