Joe Biden and a tragic tale of 3 pipelines – Trump's hard-won energy independence is gone

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Fox News by  Deroy Murdock 6/1/2021

Deroy Murdock: Joe Biden and a tragic tale of 3 pipelines – Trump's hard-won energy independence is gone

After reading this tale of three pipelines, an unhappy ending will be hard to avoid

Is Joe Biden a Russian asset?

After reading this tale of three pipelines, an unhappy ending will be hard to avoid.

First, on January 20, Biden’s initial afternoon as president, he ditched the Trump-approved Keystone XL pipeline. Some 11,000 high-paying jobs, many unionized, vanished.

While these suddenly unemployed Americans sulked, Russian President Vladimir Putin cheered. By trapping Canadian oil underground, Keystone’s cancellation curbed long-term supplies of crude oil. This boosted global prices for Russia’s key export. Indeed, for this and other reasons, crude has crept from $53-per-barrel at Biden’s inauguration to $66 Friday — up 25 percent.

Second, the Colonial Pipeline’s operators shut it down May 7 after a Russian ransomware attack. Carteresque gasoline lines soon stretched from Georgia to Washington, D.C. Biden stayed mum until May 10, when he tepidly exonerated the Kremlin.

"So far, there is no evidence, based on our intelligence people, that Russia is involved," Biden said. Officials blamed DarkSide’s private-sector e-thieves, not state-sponsored saboteurs.

OK, but where was Biden’s outrage? Where were Biden’s public demands that Putin deploy his secret-police to smoke out these cyberhoods and extradite them for U.S. interrogation and prosecution?

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