The national average for a gallon of gas this weekend was $4.84 — with California’s average at $6.32 and my home state of Louisiana at $4.43. President Joe Biden’s Energy Information Administration predicts that national average gas and diesel prices this summer will be the highest since 2014 — under then-Vice President Biden. This isn’t a coincidence, and unfortunately, what we predicted would happen at the beginning of the Biden administration is already coming true.

Instead of taking action to devise a strategy to address our energy crisis, Biden and Democrats keep unsuccessfully playing the blame game while looking to adversaries for help. They have blamed domestic energy producers while refusing to allow new energy production and have discouraged investment. They have blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin while purchases of Russian oil almost tripled in the first year of the Biden administration. And they have claimed renewables are the only solution while blocking the production of key minerals required for renewable energy technology, leaving our country even more dependent on China. And, at the same time, they have looked for oil deals with Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela.