Keystone XP & the "Blame Game" - April 14

[dan_s]

Biden’s decision to stop the Keystone Pipeline absolutely hiked gas prices. The Federalist.
White House desperate to evade blame for record gas prices is now trying to dismiss claims its decision to stop the Keystone XL Pipeline did anything to amplify Americans’ pain at the pump. “Any action on Keystone wouldn’t actually increase supply, and it would transmit oil years in the future,” National Economic Council Director Brian Deese told CNBC earlier this month. “What we need right now is to address the immediate supply disruption.” The supply disruption felt by American consumers today deceptively labeled by the president as “Putin’s Price Hike” wouldn’t be nearly as severe had the administration pursued a sustainable energy policy from day one, with domestic production ready to offset overseas turmoil.

Manchin suggests rebranding could bring back canceled Keystone XL pipeline. Washington Examiner.
Sen. Joe Manchin said the Biden administration should support resurrecting and rebranding the canceled Keystone XL pipeline in response to high fuel prices and the war-induced realignment of global energy markets. Manchin told reporters after a dayslong visit to Canada that it would be "foolish" for the administration not to consider supporting the pipeline to bring more oil to market now that the United States and other allies, including Canada and the United Kingdom, have committed to stop importing Russian products.

Congress keeps getting the law of supply and demand wrong. Mackinac. Opinion.
Elected officials in Washington, DC dragged seven oil and gas executives into hearings last week, demanding they defend themselves against congressional claims that the industry is “gouging [Americans] at the gas station.” The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Oversight and Investigation Subcommittee held the hearing to repeat price gouging charges that date back at least to the 1974 oil embargo and that have never held up to scrutiny. Elected officials, apparently eager to deflect attention from the impacts of their own policies or to garner a helpful pre-election headline, point fingers in every direction except their own.

[mikelp]

as all of you probably have experienced in your own lives, when I've attempted to engage in any discussion on this topic,
my Democrat colleagues and friends insist to me that:

1. higher energy prices are not Biden's fault, it's Putin & Trump's fault (their standard deflection for every issue)
2. nothing, NOTHING, should stand in the way of their "green new deal", not a war in Ukraine, not atrocities against Ukrainians by Russian military, not higher energy prices, nothing, zero, NADA
3. EVs are the transportation of the future, and in the near future, only low-IQ conservatives will be driving vehicles fueled by fossil fuels
4. the Biden Team has this all well under control, and he has a vision that they support completely, only low-IQ conservatives & "Trumpers" are opposed to his "vision"

the short version is they believe "Unobtanium" actually exists, not only in the movie "Avatar", but in Team Biden's "1984" dystopian world. Big Brother Joe Biden will provide all to his children.

senile Joe's poll numbers are falling like a brick thru wet tissue paper, will we survive 2.5 more years of this?

[Fraser921]

They are under a cult like spell. Fill in blank xxx derangement syndrome