Posted on 11/06/2021 9:01:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As gas prices continue to skyrocket and the feckless President of the United States continues to blame Russia and OPEC for the U.S. oil shortage he and he alone created — on purpose — on day one of his installation in the Oval Office, by killing the Keystone XL Pipeline.
Joe Biden is weighing shutting down another oil pipeline, which would all but guarantee further increased fuel prices in the affected region.
Two days ahead of the OPEC+ virtual meeting, US President Joe Biden is pointing fingers: “If you take a look at gas prices and you take a look at oil prices that’s a consequence of thus far the refusal of Russia or the OPEC nations to pump more oil” #OOTT pic.twitter.com/k4N5g8NQbO
— Javier Blas (@JavierBlas) November 2, 2021
As reported by Daily Wire, the Biden administration is reportedly gathering data on a Michigan-based pipeline that delivers oil from western Canada across Wisconsin, the Great Lakes, and Michigan, and into Ontario.
Biden Admin Weighing Shutting Down Oil Pipeline In Michigan As Gas Prices Skyrocket Across U.S.: Report https://t.co/cQUc41i4EQ
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) November 6, 2021
Citing a report from subscription-based Politico Pro, Daily Wire said the administration has not yet made a final decision about the pipeline, which comes after the Canadian government invoked an old international treaty to stop the state of Michigan from shutting down the pipeline. Via Politico Pro:
Revoking the permits for the [Line 5] pipeline that delivers oil from western Canada across Wisconsin, the Great Lakes and Michigan and into Ontario, would please environmentalists who have urged the White House to block fossil fuel infrastructure, but it would aggravate a rift with Canada and could exacerbate a spike in energy prices […].
Killing a pipeline while U.S. gasoline prices are the highest in years could be political poison for Biden, who has seen his approval rating crash in recent months.
To that last point, as is the case with every one of his self-created crises, Biden doesn’t seem to give a damn — or no longer has the mental acuity to comprehend — what’s “political poison” and what’s not to his disastrous presidency, as his approval ratings continue to swirl down the toilet at breakneck speed, as we previously reported.
Throw in blatant hypocrisy and examples abound. For example, Biden has done everything he thought he could, in several instances to the point of unconstitutionality, such as flirting with national vaccine mandates, only to later pull back and attempt to use OSHA to impose vaccine and/or testing mandates on companies with 100 or more employees. Yet? COVID-positive illegal aliens not only continue to stream across the southern border; they are subsequently and promptly shipped across the country in the dead of night. But I digress.
As to the Michigan pipeline, according to Politico Pro, the impact from shutting it down would be “yuuge.”
(Emphasis, mine.)
Industry and environmental groups have argued over the impact that shutting down the pipeline would have on the region. Line 5 carries crude oil to a number of refineries in the area, both in the United States and Canada, and its owner, pipeline operator Enbridge, estimates it is responsible for supplying more than half the propane used for heating in northern Michigan.
Prices for propane in Michigan have surged by 50 percent from a year ago, according to U.S. government statistics.
In contrast to the never-completed Keystone XL pipeline project, Line 5 has been operating since the 1950s and is a major energy supplier to Michigan and the region.
What publishable descriptors can we use for Biden, considering the above facts? This guy continues to prove he’s little more than the organ grinder monkey of the radical left, as he does their bidding, seemingly without question, obviously without conscience — if not completely plagued by incoherence.
Incidentally, as reported by my RedState colleague Nick Arama on Friday, Biden Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm — ironically, also the former governor of Michigan — laughed out loud when asked about the administration’s “plan” to help bring down gas prices: “HAHAHAHA — That is hilarious!”
A Saturday morning in Joe Biden’s America… pic.twitter.com/i2ppNwQ0NA
— Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D. (@RepGregMurphy) October 30, 2021
Joe Biden continues to foolish tilt at made-up windmill after made-up windmill, as the reality of Biden’s America™ continues to grow more ominous as he panders to — and for — his far-left puppetmasters.
It’s NOT Biden.
It’s the puppet-masters pulling his strings. Biden is not capable of making ANY decisions.
What is this constant crap of our side giving the hard left, A.K.A. the Democrats, a pass by stating they just don’t understand or they are clueless, or some such other crap.
They know exactly what they are doing. They’re Marxists. They want a Culture and Government that ranges from Hard-Core Socialism to Communism.
Quit pretending to give them the benefit of the doubt, they DO NOT DESERVE iT!
He is certainly clueless, but those around him are not.
Yep this bullsh!t of 2022 and 2024. Look at the 13 @ssholes who said they were repukeicans siding with democraps. Rather work on trying to get out on the rapture train. This country is over.
They are not CLUELESS
THEY ARE DELIBERATELY DESTROYING THE COUNTRY
Look at it from this starting point
And so much of it winds up fitting together, you get the light bulb Ah-Ha! moment
So, if you had one person who relentlessly harassed you, kept trying to cut off your electricity and gas, constantly stole money and property from you, was stalking you everywhere you went, trying to inject you with drugs against your will, and now claimed that THEY owned your children and were going to inject them with dangerous drugs, and to top it all off neither the police nor the courts would lift a finger to stop this person, what would you do? I think we all know the answer to that.
So why, when instead of one person acting this way we have thousands, trying to shield their criminality with the veneer of “government”, do we struggle to figure out what to do in response? This nation’s Founders would have had no such moral dilemma in opposing such outrageous tyranny.
It’s not biden.
He does not have the wherewithal to decide what to have for dinner.
His handlers, who are out to destroy this country, are the ones doing this.
Yup. People keep blaming Biden. He hasn’t a clue what’s happening in this country. Half of Congress hasn’t a clue either. Obama, Pelosi, Soros and Valerie Jarrett are pulling Biden’s strings.
The only way we’re going to get this country to come to it’s senses is if the Democrats quit talking and make good on their promises.
I think YOU are Spot On... and, I think it’s coming.
The people have seen quite enough.
About the time we see this 500,000 strong, who are on the way from Columbia and every country in between, congregate, or bleed over in rushing waves of thousands across our border, and with only Texas border sheriff’s a already have called out for more Texans to come and help prepare, as deputized civilians, then men will come from everywhere, I’m believing.
the theme of the next 3 presidential elections should be.... can you trust the competency of democrats. then start talking about how when ever and where ever democrats control government they fail.
Biden cannot be that thick, that stupid. He can see the effect of what he has done so far. So if he shuts down another pipeline, it is a deliberate harm he is intending to do to this country. It is intentional then!
DO IT Donkeys. Go ahead. Do it right now. Make sure Midwesterners feel it via massively increased fuel prices this Winter.
“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” — Barack Obama, October 30, 2008 “We are going to have to change our conversation; we’re going to have to change our traditions, our history; we’re going to have to move into a different place as a nation.” — Michelle Obama, May 14, 2008
Stop with the "Biden this, Biden that".
He's a poor sick old man who isn't doing anything, and attacking him when his political career is over is both pointless and a distraction from the junta who are running the country without authority to do anything, since they are neither appointed nor elected.
Never underestimate how much Biden can f*** things up.
Barack Obama
No limit to how much damage Bugsy Biden can do indeed.
Bide and his crew of buffoons could fu*k up a one car funeral.
Intentional destruction of the nation and the US economy.
When this is your paradigm, all the things happening are no longer confusing.
Break the cognitive dissonance and wake up world!
There really are evil people who wish to enslave and kill you.
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