{"id":1816439,"date":"2023-01-19T17:19:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T22:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1816439"},"modified":"2023-01-19T17:30:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T22:30:08","slug":"biden-admin-finally-admits-its-mistake-in-canceling-the-keystone-xl-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-finally-admits-its-mistake-in-canceling-the-keystone-xl-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Finally Admits Its Mistake in Canceling the Keystone XL Pipeline"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fbiden-admin-finally-admits-its-mistake-in-canceling-the-keystone-xl-pipeline%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=1816439&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-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023.01.19-04.45-thepoliticalinsider-63c973b5f0224.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><em>Tom Harris, RealClearEnergy<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration finally admits what experts know: reckless energy policies can have devastating consequences.\u00a0The Department of Energy is now quiet\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-admin-quietly-admits-canceling-keystone-xl-pipeline-cost-thousands-jobs-billions-dollars?intcmp=tw_pols\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released a report<\/a>\u00a0highlighting the positive economic effects of developing the Keystone XL pipe from Canada. A project that President Biden canceled in the hours after his inauguration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the DOE\u2019s report is a proverbial day late and a dollar short. The cancellation of Keystone XL has already cost the United States thousands in jobs and billions of dollars in economic growth, while families are suffering under record-high energy prices. It\u2019s time for lawmakers to make American energy independence a top priority.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/california-forced-to-give-residents-another-1-4b-for-unaffordable-utility-bills\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Forced to Give Residents Another $1.4B for Unaffordable Utility Bills<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Released without a formal announcement, the DOE\u2019s report points out that the pipeline would have created between 16,149 and 59,000 jobs and would have had an economic benefit of between $3.4 and 9.6 billion. That\u2019s no small impact.<\/p>\n<p>Biden cut the project in half with a single stroke of his pen and instead focused his efforts onto other projects.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/economist-sounds-alarm-green-energy-americans-struggle-costs-europe-telling-us-big-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"2\">costly<\/a>\u00a0\u201cgreen energy\u201d goals. He was able to achieve these goals through his executive actions.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2021\/12\/28\/killing-keystone-xl-how-biden-destroyed-american-energy-independence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"3\">11,000 pipeline workers<\/a>\u00a0They were immediately told that they would be laid off. \u201cgo to work to make solar panels\u201d instead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a data-safelink=\"true\">But Biden\u2019s green energy efforts are bound to backfire sooner rather than later. That\u2019s because today, more than\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:Ecb8kKNlxvQJ:https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2022\/03\/24\/moore-democrats-climate-change-agenda-doing-more-harm-than-good\/&#038;cd=18&#038;hl=en&#038;ct=clnk&#038;gl=us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"4\">70 percent<\/a>\u00a0The majority of America&#8217;s energy comes from oil, coal and gas.\u00a0That\u2019s not likely to substantially change anytime soon. The fact is that the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/reports\/world-energy-outlook-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"5\">International Energy Agency<\/a>\u00a0predicts that oil\u2019s share of energy production in the United States will only fall 8 percent in the next two decades, from 31 to 23 percent.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s assuming a sustained commitment to green energy policies. The Biden White House is in for some bad news. Biden ignores Presidents Jimmy Carter (and George H. W. Bush), at his political peril.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/02\/08\/perspectives\/keystone-cancel-biden\/index.html\">lost elections<\/a>\u00a0due to rising oil prices and subsequent recessions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"subscribe\" class=\"email-signup inarticle\">\n<h4>Support Conservative Voices!<\/h4>\n<h5><strong>Get the most recent news by signing up<\/strong> Your inbox receives political news, commentary, and insight directly.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>The administration reaps a bitter fruit two years after sowing its Green New Deal policies. Due to Biden\u2019s folly,\u00a0<a data-safelink=\"true\">Prices for oil, natural gas, and electricity have been\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/electric-bills-soar-across-the-country-as-winter-looms-11663493404\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"7\">more than doubled in just a single year.<\/a>\u00a0In the meantime, more than\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/12\/23\/20percent-of-americans-couldnt-pay-their-energy-bill-in-the-last-year.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"8\">28 percent<\/a>\u00a0In 2021, a majority of Americans opted to not purchase food or medicines in order to pay their energy bills. Now, the Inflation Reduction Act (misnamed) includes wind and sun spending that will cost Americans\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewg.org\/news-insights\/news-release\/2022\/08\/congress-sends-historic-369-billion-climate-clean-energy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"9\">$369 billion<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If the president or his Democratic allies in Congress fail to learn lessons from the past they will have a rare chance to see an even more dire future by continuing on the same irresponsible path.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/biden-pressures-foreign-countries-to-ramp-up-oil-production-after-killing-keystone-pipeline-gas-prices-skyrocket\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden Begs Foreign Countries To Ramp Up Oil Production After Killing Keystone Pipeline, Gas Prices Skyrocket<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Europe&#8217;s current situation is a warning sign for the future. European leaders are years ahead of the United States in their quest towards achieving a green utopia, but they\u2019ve seen little success. German candle sales have plummeted due to the dire state of the economy.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/27\/candle-fever-strikes-as-blackout-fearing-germans-revive-festive-flames\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"10\">skyrocketing<\/a>\u00a0Families are preparing for power outages during winter. German villages are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:HIQ7fjqd67QJ:https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/10\/23\/germany-coal-climate-cop26\/&#038;cd=16&#038;hl=en&#038;ct=clnk&#038;gl=us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"11\">being ploughed over<\/a>\u00a0to make way for digging brown coal, a step necessitated by Germany\u2019s misguided overcommitment to wind and solar power. While these desperate measures may be helpful, they are not sufficient to protect the vulnerable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Europe\u2019s obsession with green energy and overreliance on Russian gas have resulted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brusselstimes.com\/251470\/electricity-prices-in-europe-hit-record-highs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"12\">in energy cost increases<\/a>\u00a0So severe, that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brusselstimes.com\/331119\/high-energy-prices-will-kill-more-than-100000-europeans-this-winter-study-finds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"13\">147,000 more people are projected to die<\/a>\u00a0This winter was more severe for cold-related illness than if electricity costs had remained at the 2015-19 average.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, Finland&#8217;s electric car owners are told this despite it.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/yle.fi\/a\/3-12679893\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"14\">not to warm up their vehicles<\/a>\u00a0on cold mornings to avoid putting unnecessary strain on the nation\u2019s failing electricity grid.<\/p>\n<p>The prize for dystopian power-saving measures where families are being supported goes to the United Kingdom.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/octopus.energy\/blog\/saving-sessions-faqs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"15\">bribed<\/a>\u00a0In exchange for electricity bill savings and other prizes, you can sit in the dark. If the United States follows in Europe\u2019s green footsteps, it risks ushering in a similarly dark, cold and dismal existence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/richard-trumka-keystone-afl-cio-head-criticizes-biden-for-pipeline-permit-cancelation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richard Trumka, Head Of AFL-CIO, Criticizes Biden For Keystone Pipeline Permit Cancelation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>American families deserve better. Biden&#8217;s administration is fighting a war on energy producers, sabotaging American energy production and trying to create a green energy pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>Our country has the technology and the resources necessary to produce all our energy needs. Lawmakers must recommit themselves to the goal of an abundant energy future that brings prosperity and fuels dreams in America\u2019s communities.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tom Harris, Executive Director, is based in Ottawa, Canada.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.icsc-climate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"16\">International Climate Science Coalition<\/a><\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer\">Contributors and\/or content partners may express their opinions, but they do not necessarily reflect those of The Political Insider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Harris, RealClearEnergy The Biden administration finally admits what experts know: reckless energy policies can have devastating consequences.\u00a0The Department of Energy is now quiet\u00a0released a report\u00a0highlighting the positive economic effects of developing the Keystone XL pipe from Canada. A project that President Biden canceled in the hours after his inauguration.\u00a0 But the DOE\u2019s report is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1816442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[4496,5216,3620,5458,4944,5321,4947,4953,4950,3819],"class_list":["post-1816439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-admin","tag-admits","tag-biden","tag-bongino","tag-canceling","tag-finally","tag-keystone","tag-mistake","tag-pipeline","tag-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816439","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=1816439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1816442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1816439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1816439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1816439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}