Oil, gas, wind, and Kansas-grown ethanol — no apologies for any of them.
What's wrong. What it costs the patient. What we're doing about it. This page lays out Doc's record on energy in three layers: the diagnosis, the prescription, and the receipts.
My top three priorities right now are E15, E15, and E15. All-of-the-above is the Kansas energy answer because it is the Kansas economic answer.
What we're doing about it.
- Nationwide Consumer & Fuel Retailer Choice Act (S. 593) — cosponsor, year-round E15
- Natural Gas Tax Repeal Act (S. 143) — cosponsor
- S.J.Res.12 / H.J.Res.35 CRA — voided EPA methane-fee rule (Marshall cosponsored)
In detail.
Kansas is an oil-and-gas state, an ethanol state, and a top-five wind state. Doc treats all three the same way: as economic engines that put money in Kansans' pockets. The energy fight in Washington is rarely about energy — it is about whether Washington allows Kansas to use the natural advantages Kansas already has.
Year-round E15 is the single highest-leverage Kansas energy fight. Doc cosponsors the Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act (S. 593) to make the E15 summer waiver permanent — the difference between a Kansas corn farmer getting a real demand signal and getting another year of broken promises at the pump. The 45Z Clean Fuel Production Credit covers sorghum-to-ethanol, which routes margin directly to growers in the Big First.
On natural gas, Doc cosponsors the Natural Gas Tax Repeal Act (S. 143) and cosponsored the Congressional Review Act resolution that voided the EPA implementing rule for the Biden-era methane fee. H.J.Res.35 (Pfluger) was signed by President Trump in March 2025. On the Working Families Tax Cuts package, Doc voted yea on the permitting-reform package because Kansas wind and Kansas oil both need pipelines and transmission lines built, not delayed.
Last month Doc toured the East Kansas Agri-Energy ethanol plant in Garnett. Kansas energy is built by Kansas families. Doc votes that way.