On the campaign trail, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden promised to kill the Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport 830,000 barrels of crude oil each day from Alberta, Canada, to Nebraska, a pledge met with elation from environmental activists across the globe.
So no one was surprised when, on his first day in office, Biden followed through by revoking the pipeline permit through executive order, again prompting applause from the green crowd.
But even a cursory examination of the issue reveals Biden’s actions to be mere virtue signaling, which will not stop the oil from flowing into the United States, and could prove even more environmentally dangerous than the Keystone XL pipeline itself.
The story of the pipeline is a long one. After Congress declined to pass climate change legislation near the end of President Barack Obama’s first term, the environmental lobby went looking somewhere else for victories. It zeroed in on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, designed to stretch about 1,800 miles and carry tar sands crude, itself a favorite bogeyman of environmentalists.
Shortsighted politicians and knee-jerk “environmentalists” didn’t think this through. Truckers’ unions
were celebrating, until fuel prices went up….. again.
To follow a similar example, instead of putting the gasoline directly into your car at the pump,
you must now park your car at least 50 feet away with the engine running at 1500 rpm and transfer the fuel from pump to car using a single one gallon gas can with no cap or nozzle and a pinhole leak in the bottom.
Good one. That’s pretty much on target.