Biden To Cut Off His Nose To Spite His Face

[Elderberry]

Not a Lot of People Know That by Paul Homewood 1/20/2021

Signalling his commitment to quickly confront climate change, President-elect Joe Biden is planning to move within days to quash the controversial multibillion-dollar Keystone XL pipeline, according to two individuals familiar with the decision who spoke on the condition of anonymity because it had not been announced yet.

The politically symbolic pipeline, promoted by the oil and gas industry since it was first proposed about 15 years ago, has drawn opposition because it would carry tar sands, or heavy bitumen, from the boreal forests of northern Alberta, Canada, to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast. The energy used in extracting these molasses-like petroleum supplies would contribute heavily to climate change.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/01/18/president-elect-biden-kill-keystone-xl-pipeline-fight-climate-change/

It appears likely that one of Sleepy Joe’s first actions will be to cancel the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which has been the ball in a ping pong game between Democrats and Republicans since Obama’s days in 2010.
The action has more to do with placating his far left supporters than saving the planet from global warming.
Currently oil is already flowing from Alberta through the original Keystone pipeline. Keystone XL is designed to increase that capacity, and thereby save the need for shipping by rail the oil that Keystone cannot currently handle. Anybody with a bit of common sense would realise that cutting rail journeys would reduce emissions, not to mention be much safer.
Worse still, most of Keystone XL has already been built, just leaving a gap in Nebraska, where eco-activists have been fighting against it through the courts.

According to the US Chamber of Commerce, the Keystone XL will:

•   Produce 20,000 well-paying jobs during manufacturing and construction;
•   Increase personal income for all America workers by $6.5 billion during the lifetime of the project.
•   Generate an estimated $138.4 million in annual property tax revenue for state governments and local entities where the pipeline is located;
•   Create $585 million in new taxes for communities among the pipeline route;
•   Create more than $5.2 billion in property taxes during the lifetime of the pipeline.
•   Generate additional private sector investment of around $20 billion on food, lodging, fuel, vehicles, equipment, construction supplies and services.

Even if Biden has his way and stops importing Canadian oil, it will make no difference at all, because Canada will simply export it to Asian markets, where demand for energy is insatiable.

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[Elderberry]

Biden to bar Keystone pipeline within hours of taking office

Houston Chronicle by Jennifer A. Dlouhy and Ari Natter Jan. 20, 2021

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/Biden-to-Bar-Keystone-Pipeline-in-Reversal-of-15885203.php

In one of his first major environmental actions, Biden will revoke TC Energy Corp.’s pipeline permit via an executive order because it doesn’t “serve the U.S. national interest,” according to fact sheet from his transition team.

The move brings Keystone’s fate full circle, repeating a decision made in 2015 by President Barack Obama to keep the pipeline from crossing the border. Trump reversed that in 2017 on his fourth full day in office over the objections of environmental groups.

TC Energy said it was “disappointed” and would suspend work on the project, leading to the layoff of thousands of workers. The decision overturns “an unprecedented, comprehensive regulatory process that lasted more than a decade and repeatedly concluded the pipeline would transport much-needed energy in an environmentally responsible way,” said the Calgary-based company.

[Fishrrman]

Some of the oil may get switched to rail, but I wouldn't be surprised if orders come down from above to place serious restrictions on that traffic, as well.

Example:
The Federal Railroad Administration could impose a low speed limit on unit oil trains, say 25mph, that would make it difficult for the railroads to handle the traffic without imposing on the other trains they run.
(I'm guessing that these trains normally run with a 40 or 50mph limit in most places)

[BassWrangler]

well that works.

[skeeter]

The first thing everyone should get straight is none of this is coming from Joe Biden, but from hundreds of unelected progressive activists infesting the bowels of government. Biden is just a threadbare old sock puppet.

What would be hilarious is if Biden decided to start taking his role seriously and making decisions on his own apart from the beltway slugs.

Probably would significantly shorten his time on this mortal coil, though.

[Right_in_Virginia]

The first thing everyone should get straight is none of this is coming from Joe Biden, but from hundreds of unelected progressive activists infesting the bowels of government. Biden is just a threadbare old sock puppet.

What would be hilarious is if Biden decided to start taking his role seriously and making decisions on his own apart from the beltway slugs.

Probably would significantly shorten his time on this mortal coil, though.

Yup!   

[Cyber Liberty]

If I ran the pipeline company I'd dynamite the entire line. It's the Galt thing to do. Sow salt into the Earth. There is no point in waiting years to restart it, the Canadians will have finished the lines to ship the tar sand oil to China, which serves Biteme's Masters just fine.

[goatprairie]

We'll see what happens when the price of gasoline/heating fuel rises from stopping those pipelines and fracking.
What Biden will do will basically be creating  indirect taxes on average Americans.  Biden is not as philosophically socialist as Obama was, but, of course, he (1)  doesn't want to offend the growing numbers of radicals in his party and (2) he's almost 80 and near permanent incapacitation from advanced senility or age-related disease.
 Radical Kommie Harris is eagerly waiting in the wings for Biden to be deposed from some age or dementia-related issue. Anybody who tries to grab the tail of a dog while stark naked out of the shower is not far away from the loony bin.