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New Mexico Republican gubernatorial candidate Rebecca Dow told Fox News that, if elected, she would promote American energy production, reverse “burdensome regulations” and ensure that the state’s oil and gas resources are tapped to bring the United States back to energy independence.
In an interview with Fox News Thursday, Dow, who serves as a state representative in New Mexico, said the state has “some of the most prolific” formations in the world.
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“We have oil and natural gas in both northwest New Mexico and southeast New Mexico,” Dow said. “All we’re missing is strong leadership that puts America first.”
State Rep. Rebecca Dow, R-Truth or Consequences, speaks to staff before the start of the New Mexico Legislative session on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019, in Santa Fe, N.M.
(AP Photo/Russell Contreras)
“Just two years ago, the United States was energy independent, and that was largely in part due to the production in the Permian and Delaware basins,” Dow told Fox News. “But Michelle Lujan Grisham, our current governor, has been nothing more than a Biden puppet.”
Dow criticized Grisham, saying she brought a “failing, radical, green agenda back to New Mexico” after serving in Congress as a progressive.
“Even during an energy crisis that we are facing right now in our state and in our nation — we are looking at rolling blackouts in an energy-rich state — she has appointed faceless bureaucrats to find ways to regulate the energy industry,” Dow said.
Dow added that Grisham’s energy department is putting “even more burdensome regulations on oil and gas” and is “slow-walking leases and permits that are stopping us from producing.”
“I would reverse all of that,” Dow said.
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