In an appearance on Fox Business, Cruz denounced the Biden administration's handling of energy policy, agreeing that it was one of the biggest blunders of the administration. He claimed that the administration's stance on energy is being dictated by"environmental extremists" and ends up being counterproductive.Sen. @tedcruz slams Biden's war on American energy:
"They're hurting the environment, they're killing U.S. jobs, and they're hurting U.S. consumers. It is hammering small businesses and it is hammering a lot of working families." pic.twitter.com/RK95LfPjRN"It is irrational because they're doing it in the name of the Green New Deal, in the name of environmental extremists," Cruz said.
"But the asinine part of that is that America produces oil and gas, among the cleanest production on the face of the planet. And so what they've done is reduced as a relative share American production, and they've shifted it to foreign productions paid places like the Middle East and Russia, and Venezuela and Iran, all of which produce much dirtier than America does.""So they're hurting the environment," he continued."They're killing U.S.
Biden has faced criticism from the right and left over his energy policy. Conservatives argue that his curbing of oil drilling is hurting the economy, and left-wing critics argue that he isn't doing enough to protect the environment.