{"id":504012,"date":"2021-05-13T12:06:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T16:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=504012"},"modified":"2021-05-13T12:06:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T16:06:06","slug":"bidens-energy-secretary-on-gas-crisis-if-you-drove-an-electric-car-this-would-not-be-affecting-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-energy-secretary-on-gas-crisis-if-you-drove-an-electric-car-this-would-not-be-affecting-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Energy Secretary On Gas Crisis: If You Drove an Electric Car, \u2018This Would Not Be Affecting You\u2019"},"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\">36<\/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%2Fbidens-energy-secretary-on-gas-crisis-if-you-drove-an-electric-car-this-would-not-be-affecting-you%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=504012&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/jg-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Unlike Bill Clinton, President Joe Biden\u2019s energy secretary apparently does not feel your pain \u2014 at least if you own a gasoline-powered car.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm appeared at a press briefing at the White House on Tuesday and took questions about the gas crisis caused by a cyber attack against a major pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just have a question for each of you. I\u2019ll start with you, Secretary Granholm, because ladies first,\u201d a reporter asked. \u201cObviously, we have the acute issues with the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack. But looking more holistically in a macro view, how does this speed up the efforts at DOE to move in more of a renewable direction since this is going to have an impact on people at the pump?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I mean, we obviously are \u2018all in\u2019 on making sure that we meet the president\u2019s goals of getting to 100% clean electricity by 2035 and net-zero carbon emissions by 2050,\u201d Granholm said. \u201cAnd, you know, if you drive an electric car, this would not be affecting you, clearly. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it\u2019s just \u2014 it\u2019s another \u2014 it\u2019s \u2014 I don\u2019t want to \u2014 this company is acting in a responsible way,\u201d Granholm said. \u201cThey took their pipeline down so that the ransomware would not spread. And so, up to this point, they have \u2014 they\u2019re carefully reviewing so that they\u2019re doing this in a responsible way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Colonial Pipeline\u2019s operations have resumed, at least in part, it will take more than two weeks for gasoline in Houston to reach many sites on the East Coast, according to new reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTransit times for gasoline to pass through Colonial\u2019s network of pipelines that allow oil products to flow from the U.S. Gulf Coast, up to its North Carolina hub, and then on to New York Harbor, is 14 days and 16 hours, at a speed of about 5 miles per hour, according to the most recent schedule sent to shippers,\u201d Bloomberg News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-05-11\/n-y-must-wait-on-5-mph-gasoline-flow-once-pipeline-is-reopened\">reported<\/a>. \u201cDiesel and jet fuel, heavier and more dense products, need about 19 days to make the same trip that spans about 1,600 miles through the busiest pipeline system in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Colonial on Friday was hit with a cyber attack forced the closure of the 5,500-mile pipeline, which moves more than 100 million gallons of fuel from Texas to New Jersey every day \u2014 nearly 50% of the fuel consumed on the East Coast. The company suspended all operations since the attack, but on Thursday issued a statement saying operations have resumed.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it \u201chas made substantial progress in safely restarting our pipeline system and can report that product delivery has commenced in a majority of the markets we service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>GasBuddy analyst Patrick De Haan said he expects shortages to get worse over the next two days, writing on Twitter: \u201cWhile the Colonial Pipeline is restarting, the outage numbers may drift higher over the next 48 hours before then beginning to fall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>De Haan, though, had a shorter timeline than Bloomberg. \u201cAbout 7-14 days of headaches if you need fuel in GA, NC, SC or VA. The situation will definitely take time and slowly improve due to a high number of outages and higher number of stations to refuel,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike Bill Clinton, President Joe Biden\u2019s energy secretary apparently does not feel your pain \u2014 at least if you own a gasoline-powered car.Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm appeared at a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278040,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/jg-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Biden\u2019s Energy Secretary On Gas Crisis: If You Drove an Electric Car, \u2018This Would Not Be Affecting You\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/jg-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Biden\u2019s Energy Secretary On Gas Crisis: If You Drove an Electric Car, \u2018This Would Not Be Affecting You\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504012","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=504012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}