Americans, we believe, mostly understand that conventional energy sources create opportunities for careers, supply our homes and businesses with affordable heat and power so more money can passed onto consumer savings and employees’ paychecks and have steadily improved in reducing the environmental impact from oil and natural gas production.

As we reiterated in our Nov. 14 editorial, we believe much of the Democrats’ woes stem from its disparagement of domestic development of conventional energy sources — namely, drilling for oil and natural gas on American soil and building the facilities necessary to meet the world’s demand for energy with these American resources.

We are elated by the news, reported by The Center Square in a report in this past weekend’s business section of the Sun-Gazette, that an emboldened Republican Party continues to confront the efforts of the Biden Administration to create unnecessary obstacles for liquified natural gas.

As we said in that Nov. 14 editorial, the Biden Administration’s approach to “pause” LNG production and release a study justifying that pause was a “rushed — and subsequently highly questionable — approach.”

As The Center Square reported, “Republican lawmakers on the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology sent a scathing letter to the Department of Energy Monday, requesting for the fourth time that it reveal the scientific process used to craft its upcoming analysis of liquified natural gas (LNG) exports.”

While the Biden Administration should be embarrassed to have failed to address the Republicans’ requests the previous three times transparency was sought, we hope this time they relent.

More importantly, we hope Democrats both inside and beyond the White House consider the strong possibility that many of their defeats in November can be traced to their hostility to sectors of the economy that create American jobs while ensuring the energy needed for our homes and workplaces is more affordable.

We believe America would be best served if our parties could work together in allowing these industries to deliver for America and the world.