US Oil and Gas Association to launch 'Energy Contract' with America to end 'energy poverty'

President of the U.S. Oil and Gas Association Tim Stewart announced that the organization is expected to launch a project along the lines of an "Energy Contract with America" to bring awareness to energy poverty. 

"I think what we'd like to do going forward is to go back to the old days of the old 'Contract with America' but make it an 'Energy Contract with America.'. Something like that where we as the energy industry as a whole... the oil and gas or nuclear or renewable join together and we say, 'look, one of the first things we have to do is an energy poverty in America,'" Stewart said on the Thursday edition of the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. 

The European Union defines energy poverty is when a household "must reduce its energy consumption to a degree that negatively impacts the inhabitants' health and wellbeing."

"We're the world's energy superpower," Stewart said. "There's absolutely no reason why we have policies that remain in place that pits one form of energy against another at the cost of the American people, particularly those low and moderate income families. Everybody should have access to energy."

Last year, the association launched an initiative titled "Hands off my stove" in response to the Biden administration's crackdown on President Joe Biden's regulatory crackdown on gas stoves.

Stewart said he hopes lawmakers will sign the contract. 

"Let's sign a contract with the people who make decisions that impact our lives and have them work with us and say, 'we're not going to implement policies that pit one energy against another and make people poor.'"