Unlocking Our Domestic Lng Potential Act of 2024

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Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express my frustration with the Republican obsession with LNG and fossil fuels. I commend the Biden administration on this decisive and very important step to fighting the climate crisis.

Republicans have been making the same argument since the nineties even as the realities of the argument have been changing. Green energies like wind, solar, and hydro are no longer the future. They are the present, and they are now cost competitive with fossil fuels and continue to become even cheaper, not to mention that they don't leave lasting damage and impact to our planet that we will have to clean up later.

LNG is dangerous, it is dirty, and it leaves lasting environmental and health damage to the community where it is produced.

I want to be even clearer. According to the Department of Energy, the more LNG that we export, the more expensive prices will be for gas at the pump, and our electricity bills will be even higher.

Additionally, LNG, which is 90 percent methane, heats the atmosphere at 80 times the rate of carbon dioxide, and for my fellow Floridians, we are having hotter and hotter summers and record heat. This means even hotter summers, even deadlier summers and faster sea levels rising.

LNG is a loser for our pockets. It is a loser for humanity. It is a loser for our communities, and it is killing us.

To hear my colleagues say that: Oh, the President is pandering to the climate movement. Two things: Number one, I can only hope, pray, and fight to make sure that we build off of this victory to get to a green, clean future. Number two, the climate activists, advocates, and organizers are heroes for fighting to protect all of us, even your constituents.

So Republicans have been fighting on behalf of their friends in Big Oil for longer than I have been alive, and I am asking for the sake of humanity, for God's sake, please find better friends.

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