Kalamazoo Times

With fuel costs continuing to plague motorists, the Biden administration is looking to foreign oil producers to provide relief from surging gas prices.

National gas prices are currently over $4 per gallon, with Michigan's average at $4.15 per gallon, AAA reported in their gas prices index.

A video from May 2020 shows Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) explaining to Brionte McCorkle, executive director of Georgia Conservation Voters, that the country needs to mitigate its reliance on fossil fuels, and a carbon tax could be a way to achieve that process.

"I think we need to be moving away from an economy that's based on fossil fuels," Warnock said in the video. "That's the way of the past, and we need to be moving toward the future."

When Joe Biden was running for president, he said the future of energy was not in the fossil fuel sector, making a promise to "end fossil fuels" during a campaign event in New Castle, New Hampshire, in 2019.

"Raphael Warnock helped kill the Keystone Pipeline and American energy development—causing Georgia's gas prices to spike and our country to lose its energy independence," Stephen Lawson, spokesperson for the 34N22 political action committee, told The Washington Free Beacon.

Biden is examining whether resourcing fossil fuels from Iran, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia is a feasible way to remedy the rise in gas prices, Fox Business reported.

The Keystone XL Pipeline, which was projected to deliver 830,000 barrels from Canada to America, was rejected when Biden canceled a critical permit during his first day in office, CNBC reported.

"The hypocrisy of this administration to continue to consume fossil fuels knowing full well that we can produce them here — cleaner, safer, more environmentally sound — and yet go to rely on tyrants around the world to produce them for the United States is just terrible," Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT) told Fox Business.

The Biden administration said late last year that they were not pursuing funding of international fossil fuel efforts in order to lead a worldwide climate change initiative, E&E News reported.