US Oil and Gas Association President says Democrats know they overreached on energy policy

President of the U.S. Oil and Gas Association Tim Stewart said that he thinks the Democrats believe they may have overreached when it comes to energy policy. 

"Democrats are looking around and thinking 'maybe we overreached here,'" Stewart said on the Thursday edition of the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. "Because when you overreach, there's some real economic consequences."

Washington D.C. is adopting California's electric vehicle mandate where dealerships within the district will be required to sell only zero-emissions vehicles beginning in 2035.

The Biden administration has been facing a lot of pushback from energy companies as it pushes for an all electric future.

"The typical American family has to get food every week," Stewart said. "They have to figure out how to get to and from work and they watch those two prices more than anything else ... they know how much they're paying for milk and bread and eggs. They know how much they're paying for gas. The Democratic policies were put in place when the Biden administration came in and now we're seeing the residual impacts of that."

He added that a common sense energy solution is possible.

"A common sense energy policy cannot not include fossil fuels," he stated. "It has to actually have fossil fuels as their baseline and build everything else. It is more of everything of the above. That's the most common sense energy policy that we can see right now."