Morse: Why sidle up to despots for oil when we can drill our own

Chuck Morse ... raps Sen. Maggie Hassan on administration's incoherent energy policy (Courtesy photo)

SALEM - U.S. Senate candidate Chuck Morse took a swipe at his potential Senate opponent this November slamming U.S. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., today for the Biden administration's apparent attempt to prop up the nation's energy supply by courting oil exporting countries in the Mideast instead of producing our own energy at home.

Morse said in a press release that American officials are "meeting with international dictators" in light of the current oil crisis which has been caused by Democrat policies supported by Joe Biden and Hassan.

"Maggie Hassan needs to stand up to the Biden Administration for once," Morse said. "Biden and his team are talking with dictators while ignoring American energy producers. We need American oil, not the blood oil from dictators across the globe."

Morse urged the United States to greatly expand its domestic production of oil and natural gas.

"We need to vigorously pursue an energy policy that produces the most amount of energy from the most amount of sources from here in America," Morse said. "We would be better off supplying energy to our friends and cutting off the spigot from our enemies - we've done that before and we can get back to an era of American energy independence again. Maggie Hassan and Joe Biden need to stop playing gimmicks and cozying up to dictators - it's time to put America first."

The Biden administration is reported in informal talks with Saudi Arabia, Iran and Venezuela in an effort to get them to export more oil and gas to the United States to ease the current shortages and skyrocketing prices.

Several Republicans are looking to take on Hassan, whose seat is considered vulnerable in November. They include General Don Bolduc, Morse and Kevin Smith, a state senator.