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On his first day in office, President Biden canceled permits for the Keystone XL pipeline. Environmentalists and anti-fossil fuel activists should not have applauded his move.
After all, Canada will not stop extracting oil from the tar sands of northern Alberta. Instead, it will simply export oil over existing pipelines or to the Pacific Ocean, where the damage from a potential spill would be harder to address. Biden’s cancellation cost jobs and pushes Canada toward greater economic cooperation with China. It also shakes confidence in U.S. business. Who would invest in the country if any future administration can simply renege on deals with the stroke of a pen? Especially, that is, when the investments involved here reach into the billions of dollars?
Biden’s move was both political theater and an indulgence of his liberal base. But his hypocrisy was stunning even for a politician who has spent a half-century in Washington.
Consider that while the Biden administration is killing a pipeline from which the public could benefit, Biden is promoting a pipeline to enrich both one of the world’s worst dictatorships and a group responsible for thousands of U.S. deaths. The government has apparently brokered a meeting between the Turkmenistan government and the Taliban for a trans-Afghanistan pipeline to bring Turkmen gas across Afghanistan and Pakistan to India.
What's next Joe?
originally posted by: Wide-Eyes
a reply to: Lumenari
And the big gaping wound that they want to sew up is the guns.
They won't stop until they have your guns. That is the endgame.
Once they have those, well, you know...
originally posted by: JAY1980
Oil pipelines in Turkmenistan?...
Two months into the Biden administration and it's already sounding like the plot to a s****y James Bond movie.
originally posted by: Wide-Eyes
a reply to: Lumenari
All I can say is that if you have the support of your community then lobby for a 2nd amendment sanctuary in your state. I'm guessing ND is already safe but no matter what state you live in, don't let them disarm you.
The world is depending on you. No pressure.
originally posted by: Wide-Eyes
a reply to: Lumenari
Lol, that's good to know.
I thought you were in ND, sorry.
originally posted by: KansasGirl
Anyone notice how the TDS people and potato Biden supporters and such never show up in threads like this one? They don’t show up to tell us how wonderful that potato is, when there are threads about what the guy is actually doing.