New RSLC Ads Highlight How Failed Liberal Policies at State Level Cripple American Energy

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) today launched a series of digital ads in blue states across the country highlighting how failed liberal policies at the state level are crippling domestic energy production, leading to record high gas prices and a dependence on dictators for oil. The ads come on the heels of a devastating report published earlier this week by the National Review exposing how President Biden has “been following in the footsteps of blue-state Democrats, whose policies began undermining domestic energy production long before Russian president Vladimir Putin decided to invade Ukraine, ramping up pressure on already strained global markets.”

The spots, which are backed by an initial five-figure buy, will run in Colorado, Maine, Nevada, and New Mexico. This is the first spending the RSLC has done in any of the four states since they were announced earlier in March as state legislative targets for the committee in 2022.

“Voters across the country who are furious with President Biden for crippling America’s energy independence also have Democrat legislators in blue states across the country to blame for skyrocketing prices at the pump,” said RSLC Communications Director Andrew Romeo. “Radical liberal energy policies enacted at the state level are part of the reason why the United States is at the mercy of dictators when it comes to oil production and the American people will reject state Democrats and their war on domestic energy in November.”

Watch “Pay the Price” HERE.

TRANSCRIPT

Text on Screen: This is Colorado. And here gas costs more than ever. Why? Because Democrats control Denver. And they run D.C. too. We depend on other countries for energy. Even though we can produce more than enough here at home. Democrats have been fighting against American energy for decades. Outsourcing production to dictators, while you pay the price. Energy independence now.

Watch the additional three ads below.

Maine

Nevada

New Mexico

BACKGROUND

• According to the Colorado Gazette Editorial Board, “The Colorado General Assembly passed Senate Bill 181 in 2019, imposing sweeping regulations that crippled Colorado’s oil and gas industry. Within six months of the bill’s enactment, approval permits for oil wells plummeted by 57%; approved well-drilling permits dropped 58%.”
• Maine passed what media outlets dubbed as “the state’s own Green New Deal” in June of 2019. When Governor Mills signed it into law, her office argued it would “help achieve (the) Governor’s goals of 80 percent renewable energy by 2030 and emissions reductions of 80 percent by 2050.”
• The New Mexico legislature in March of 2021 passed Senate Bill 8. According to the Carlsbad Current-Argus, the measure “allowed the State to set environmental standards more stringent than federal law.” The outlet also noted that, “in 2022 energy industry advocacy group Power the Future’s Santa Fe-based spokesman Larry Behrens argued that constrictive energy policy at both the state and federal level were responsible for rising prices of gasoline and other sources.”
• In 2019, the Nevada legislature passed SB 254. This bill requires the Division of Environmental Protection to annually create an inventory of greenhouse gas emissions and develop strategies to reduce Nevada’s greenhouse gas emissions 28% by 2025 and 45% by 2030, from a 2005 baseline. This bill also calls for the executive branch to assess whether the above strategies will result in zero or near zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

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