The government is failing to take necessary actions to increase domestic energy capacity, leading to record-high fuel prices for consumers.

“Are there actions that we could be taking here in the United States to increase our energy capacity here in this country? Mea- meaning, let's shut out the rest of the world. Are there actions that we can take here in the United States? The answer is unequivocally yes. Are we doing that? No.”

Andrew Schulz jokingly suggests raising gas prices specifically in Los Angeles to solve the national average problem.

“I think the solution to gas price is you just raise LA's prices yeah only them only that so like lower North Dakota's price to $2 and raise LA's to $28 a gallon”

The retail price of gasoline is currently at a level that threatens demand destruction and economic catastrophe for voters.

“Retail price of gasoline at $5 is potentially catastrophic. So, that's why there's a reaction to gasoline prices creeping up and oil prices and everything else.”

California's regulatory environment has reduced the state's refinery capacity, which has directly resulted in higher gas prices for drivers.

“If you tax people out of your state and you make a specialized gasoline, carbob, right, or cfg, but I call it carbob. You make a special gas that they use in South Korea, they use in India, but nowhere else in the United States >> and then you run the people who make that for you out of your state.”

Progressive policies in California have intentionally destroyed the state's oil industry, creating a market environment without competition that leads to artificially high costs.

“Progressive policies pulverize the people they purport to protect. That's what they do and that's what's happening. There's no competition in California and Maryland for that matter.”