United States Senator Alan Armstrong of Oklahoma

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Dear John --

Earlier this summer I toured a
power substation in Odesa, Ukraine, with a bipartisan Senate
delegation. Seeing their infrastructure made me think a lot about our
own. Oklahoma produces some of the most affordable energy on earth,
and families here still pay more.

Every time tensions rise in the
Middle East [link 3], Washington sounds the alarm about rising
gasoline prices. As I said on the Senate floor [link 4], we cannot
solely blame our costs on instability in the Strait of Hormuz.
Although these concerns are real, they distract from a harder reality:
We've made it too hard to build the infrastructure that carries energy
from where it's produced to where it's needed.

Take New England for
example. Massachusetts sits 120 miles from one of the world's most
prolific natural gas regions and still pays 252 percent above the
national average [link 5] because the pipeline to carry it was never
allowed to be built. Just across Oklahoma's southern line, West Texas
electricity and natural gas prices sometimes turn negative [link 6]
because there are not enough power lines to carry that electricity to
families and businesses elsewhere.

Same country, same abundance.
The difference is a permit.

Every pipeline and power line we fail
to build leaves your bill exposed to foreign conflicts. The fixes are
not complicated [link 7]: no single state should veto a project the
whole country needs, a lawful permit should not be undone in court
once construction is underway, and blocking a project should require
real evidence of harm. Do that, and the projects get built and energy
remains affordable.

We cannot control every geopolitical risk, but
we can decide whether our own policies amplify those risks or protect
us from them.

Do you agree our costs are driven up by what we fail
to build? Take the quick poll below -- I want to know where you
stand.

-- Alan

U.S. Senator from Oklahoma

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Office
Locations:
Oklahoma City
621 N Robinson Ave, Suite 401 ? Oklahoma
City, OK 73102 ? (405) 246-0025

Tulsa
15 W 6th St., Suite #2100 ?
Tulsa, OK 74119 ? (918) 921-8520

Washington, DC
330 Hart Senate
Building ? Washington, DC 20510 ? (202) 224-4721

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