Americans need to be "energy dominant and produce energy in the most responsible, pollutant free, if you will, manner possible," said Rep. Dan Meuser, R-Pa., on Newsmax.
He added that President Joe Biden's executive action Monday permanently banning future offshore oil and gas development in parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in a way that could be especially difficult for the incoming Trump administration to undo is not surprising and "simply outrageous."
"Look, there's nothing pleasant coming out of the Biden administration," Meuser told "American Agenda." "And frankly, there hasn't been for four years. I mean, the idea of banning and not prohibiting offshore drilling is simply outrageous. We do it cleaner in the United States. It is a national security issue. It will help lower inflation. It will create jobs."
"We need to be energy dominant and do and produce energy in the most responsible, pollutant free, if you will, manner possible," he added, "and we do it by pushing off our domestic ability to produce. It goes to Venezuela, it enriches Russia.
"It works backwards and upside down, which is most of what the ideological ideology that the Biden administration follows. They focus on ideology, not results. The last four years, I challenge anyone to tell me one positive result of any of their actions. Thank goodness Jan. 20 is right around the corner."
Biden's action will ban new oil and gas leasing across 625 million acres of U.S. ocean.
Democrats, Meuser told Newsmax, are "just wrong" on so many levels.
"They were wrong on the border. It was beyond a disaster. They were wrong on our energy policy. They were wrong on our spending. Perhaps even worst of all of what they've done to our country, put us in an unbelievable deficit hole where we have service on the debt going to be over $1 trillion this year. The Trump administration and our Republican leadership, we've got a lot of work to do to correct course," he added.
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