{"id":1367552,"date":"2022-03-09T17:20:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T22:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1367552"},"modified":"2022-03-09T17:20:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T22:20:58","slug":"same-old-d-c-b-s-energy-secretary-denies-reopening-keystone-pipeline-would-lower-oil-and-gas-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/same-old-d-c-b-s-energy-secretary-denies-reopening-keystone-pipeline-would-lower-oil-and-gas-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Same Old D.C. B.S.\u2019: Energy Secretary Denies Reopening Keystone Pipeline Would Lower Oil And Gas Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsame-old-d-c-b-s-energy-secretary-denies-reopening-keystone-pipeline-would-lower-oil-and-gas-prices%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1367552&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said politicians\u2019 claims that reopening the Keystone XL Pipeline will lower gas prices are recycling the \u201csame old D.C. B.S.\u201d at Wednesday\u2019s CERAWeek.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t do it if we\u2019re fighting internal battles,\u201d Granholm said. \u201cThere are some here, or maybe at least lobbyists or beltway politicians who seem to think that this is the time to recycle old talking points. You know this, I mean people are arguing that if a pipeline that wouldn\u2019t have even been in operation by now were still under construction, the situation with today\u2019s oil prices would be different, or that President Biden\u2019s policies have decreased production when we\u2019re actually at record-levels of natural gas and LNG and will be at record-levels of oil production hopefully by next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all know that that is the same old D.C. B.S.,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Granholm said the Department of Energy and administration are ready to \u201cseize the moment\u201d with <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/08\/kamala-harris-imagine-future-zero-emissions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clean energy<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/15\/jennifer-granholm-joe-biden-gasoline-prices-administration-policies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Granholm Says Biden Is \u2018All Over\u2019 Gas Prices, Can\u2019t List Any Policies To Lower Prices)\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/07\/doocy-psaki-spar-rising-gas-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">claimed<\/a> Monday that the U.S. is producing oil at \u201crecord numbers,\u201d though Fox Business anchor <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/08\/audacity-david-asman-debunks-psaki-oil-production\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Asman<\/a> debunked her claims, saying the country produces 1.5 million oil barrels less than in December, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, the U.S. produced 12.3 million barrels of crude oil per day, which then dropped below 11.6 million and is expected to reach 12 million throughout 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/outlooks\/steo\/report\/us_oil.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/02\/biden-administration-keystone-xl-pipeline-economic-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Keystone XL Pipeline<\/a> intended to carry 8,000 barrels of oil from Canada to Texas, but had been revoked by President Joe Biden\u2019s administration when the president first entered office. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/09\/doocy-presses-psaki-blaming-russia-gas-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Psaki<\/a> has repeatedly said reversing the pipeline will not bring down oil and gas prices when pressed on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, average <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/07\/gasoline-prices-all-time-high-russia-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gas prices<\/a> exceeded $4 per gallon and are expected to continue rising due to the Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/08\/joe-biden-ban-russian-oil-invasion-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ban<\/a> on all imports of Russian oil. The administration is now seeking to lift sanctions off <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/07\/white-house-crude-oil-venezuela-nicolas-maduro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Venezuela\u2019s<\/a> energy sector to obtain the necessary supply of oil and control rising costs.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said politicians\u2019 claims that reopening the Keystone XL Pipeline will lower gas prices are recycling the \u201csame old D.C. B.S.\u201d at Wednesday\u2019s CERAWeek.\u201cWe can\u2019t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1367552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}