Soaring demand for energy, including shortages of natural gas, coal, and oil, means there is an “absolutely legitimate concern” that Americans could be hit with power blackouts this winter, Neil Chatterjee, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission under former President Donald Trump, said on Newsmax on Wednesday.
“We’ve got a couple of situations that are coming together right now to create a problematic situation,” Chatterjee said on Newsmax’s “National Report.” “You’ve got tight supplies. You’ve got increased natural gas prices. We’re dealing with the effects of the war on Ukraine, but we also are constraining our own energy supplies here at home.”
Chatterjee added that the northeastern part of the United States is at risk because, for years, environmentalists pushed back against pipeline development.
This is “ironic,” he added, because gas is being brought instead from Russia, which means it must be imported by tankers, or consumers must burn oil, “which is far worse for the environment.”
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