It won’t and shouldn’t be the last time either.

Lawmakers will grill President Joe Biden’s Energy secretary at a newly announced oversight hearing scheduled for Thursday.

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is expected to face lawmakers for questions amid elevated gas prices, a depleted strategic petroleum reserve, and ongoing criticism of Biden’s energy policies.

According to AAA, the average national price for a gallon of unleaded gasoline is $3.60 per gallon, down slightly in recent weeks but up from the same time last year. The average price for a gallon of gas when Biden took office was about $2.40 nationally.

Like The Center Square points out, average price of gasoline is almost $4 a gallon nationally, as opposed to $2.40 when Biden took office. The increased prices are clearly due to Biden’s energy policies resulting from his fossil fuel drilling restrictions. This on top of the cost of appliances that will increase due to Biden’s so-called energy efficiency standards (they really aren’t).

Biden’s Energy Secretary, Jennifer Granholm, hasn’t worked a day in her life. She and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland are responsible for much of the depreciating quality of life people are beginning to experience and will thanks to the energy policies of the man they work for.

Though it is called for, unfortunately, the effect of the grilling Granholm will receive Thursday will only be temporary. Members of Congress will be able to get their digs into her and embarrass Granholm, but she ultimately won’t care. A way to get energy and appliance prices down would be for Congress to restrict Biden from wreaking havoc on the U.S. energy and appliance manufacturing sectors.

Biden’s climate change policies aren’t about saving the environment. It is about political control.