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April 1, 2019


Title: Why Should You Pay More: Democrats Ruin Our Freedoms?
Topic: Why Should You Pay More?
Discussed by Kathleen White
with Texas Public Policy Foundation (www.TexasPolicy.com)


Part 1 of 3

Against heavy odds and in a relatively short period of time, the US overtook the USSR and Saudi Arabia to become the world’s leader of oil and natural gas. Will Democrats and their socialist allies sabotage our freedoms, disregard our hard work, stifle our innovations, and replace courage with government mandates?

Kathleen White is the Director of the Armstrong Center for Energy and the Environment and a Senior Fellow for the “Life: Powered Project” at the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

Questions/Issues Discussed:

What advantages are available to the US consumer when energy supplies are reliable, abundant, and affordable?

Did oil and gas supplies transform American agriculture and manufacturing?

Did reliable and affordable electricity transform the American home?



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Title: Part 2 of 3 - Why Should You Pay More: Democrats Ruin Our Freedoms?
Topic: Why Should You Pay More?
Discussed by Kathleen White
with Texas Public Policy Foundation (www.TexasPolicy.com)

Questions/Issues Discussed:

How has our standard of living increased with the use of oil and gas products?

Is our lifestyle in America directly related to our dependency on reliable, abundant, and affordable energy?

Do we, in America, really know the hardships Venezuelans are facing daily?

Why have many European countries restricted the use of oil and gas? Are their citizens suffering? Is electricity now a luxury in Europe?




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Title: Part 3 of 3 - Why Should You Pay More: Democrats Ruin Our Freedoms?
Topic: Why Should You Pay More?
Discussed by Kathleen White
with Texas Public Policy Foundation (www.TexasPolicy.com)

Questions/Issues Discussed:

Do billions of people around the global lack access to reliable, abundant, and affordable energy?

Will Democrats and their socialist allies sabotage our freedoms, disregard our hard work, stifle our innovations, and replace courage with government mandates?

Will these mandates be so inhospitable to capital formation that drillers, wildcatters, builders, and risk-takers simply retire or ride off into the sunset never to put the shoulder to drill bit again in America?

Do Americans have a Constitutional right to access reliable, abundant, and affordable energy?



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