GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN – OVERNIGHT:   Remember the Keystone Pipeline?  President Biden, in one of his first acts, canceled it to satisfy the climate-change religionists, even though there was no evidence that the pipeline would have a significant impact on climate change.  Hey, you gotta feel good about yourself, right? 

Well, it turns out that the decision to drop the pipeline is immensely unpopular, is costing thousands of jobs, and is placing a target on many Democratic members of Congress who are up in 2022 and would like to keep their jobs.  And some are taking action.  Number one on the list is Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a moderate Democrat who's made it clear he will sometimes vote against the president.  From Fox: 

Sen. Joe Manchin wrote a letter to President Biden Tuesday asking him to rethink his executive order revoking the Keystone XL pipeline permit.

"Pipelines continue to be the safest mode to transport our oil and natural gas resources and they support thousands of high-paying, American union jobs," the West Virginia Democrat wrote.

On his first day in office, the president canceled the pipeline’s permit, which Donald Trump had reinstated. The long-disputed project was meant to deliver about 800,000 barrels of Canadian crude oil to the U.S.

"In the absence of access to pipelines, crude oil will continue to find its way to market through increased reliance on other modes of transport, like truck and rail, which have a higher number of reported releases of crude oil per ton-mile than pipelines," Manchin noted.

"I encourage you to reconsider your decision to revoke the cross-border permit for the Keystone XL pipeline and take into account the potential impacts of any further action to safety, jobs, and energy security," he added.

Manchin, alongside fellow Democrat Sen. Jon Tester, Mont., joined Republicans in a budget resolution supporting the pipeline.

Biden immediately drew the ire of Republicans in revoking the permit but more recently has drawn criticisms from allies.

"I wish he hadn't done that on the first day," AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told "Axios on HBO."  

COMMENT:  This will fall on deaf ears.  The Biden administration, really Barack Obama's third term, is indifferent to Americans who don't work at computers.  It cares little for America's energy independence, as it believes us to be simply another nation, conceived in sin.  The decision deeply offended Canada, which is heavily invested in the pipeline.

The pipeline will be a campaign issue, and good for Republicans.  We hope a Republican president in 2025 reverses the Biden mistake.

February 15, 2021