On January 20, Joe Biden is set to sign nearly a dozen executive orders in a furious scramble to reverse anything done by President Trump.
The orders are expected to include rejoining the Paris Climate Accord, undoing Trump’s Muslim travel ban and a mask mandate.
“These executive actions will deliver relief to the millions of Americans that are struggling in the face of these crises,” Ron Klain, Biden’s incoming chief of staff, said in a memo. “President-elect Biden will take action not just to reverse the gravest damages of the Trump administration, but also to start moving our country forward.”
According to transition documents, one of the first things Joe Biden plans to do is cancel the Keystone XL Pipeline permit.
In 2017, Trump granted a permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline, an $8 billion cross-border project with Canada. The pipeline was delayed for several years by the Obama administration before being rejected in 2015, which Trump reversed.
Last March, TC Energy Corp. approved construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, designed to transport up to 830,000 barrels per day of oil from Alberta to Nebraska, after the Alberta government agreed to invest about $1.5 billion as equity and guarantee a $5.5-billion project loan.
Despite Biden’s election win, TC Energy spokesman Terry Cunha said the company is not adjusting its construction schedule.
“Construction activity continues to take place,” he said. “As we wind down some activity due to the harsher winter weather in many areas across our footprint, it was planned for and is a normal part of the process when building large, multi-year infrastructure projects.”
So, when Biden rescinds the permit, what will this mean for consumers?
With the continued increase in crude oil prices, gas prices are seeing another multi-month high across the country. The national average increased 4.2 cents per gallon to a grand total of $2.39 on Monday, according to AAA.
Patrick DeHaan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy, said canceling approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would cut off reliable Canadian oil to the U.S., will cause additional pressures for oil prices.
“For now, the upward trend in gas prices may slow from the sharp rise in the last week, but motorists shouldn’t expect much of a break from rising gas prices, which now stand less than twenty cents from their year-ago levels,” DeHaan said.
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It appear that not only is China and Ukraine bribing the Bidens, it is also the Muslim OPEC countries bribing the Bidens.
And Warren Buffett, who bought BNSF lock stock and barrel and took it private, because it was the only railroad with continuous track from Alberta to refineries in Louisiana. He charges ten times more than XL would charge. He donates heavily to anti-XL politicians and activist groups.
Not surprised. Not surprised one bloomin bit.
I can’t wait… $6.32 gas prices… that’ll bring the economy roaring back… in particular for all the uneducated minorities who can barely make ends meet now… I’m sure Don Quid Pro Joe will just increase the min. wage to $20.00 to counter act it…. bankrupting small business’s and crushing 1/2 the jobs. We will have the most incompetent, useless, evil, stupid government that was never elected running ..or should I say… ruining our country ever.
Well, with folks being banned from travel, etc, THEY WON’T need to buy as much gas, as they won’t need to drive as much…
Drive up the prices that we have to pay and let your foreign buddies get rich off of us. No way.
It will bring an increase in fuel costs, and along with that an increase in the price of consumer goods, which will effectively cost us savings and increase the overall cost of living. The increase in social programs to help those who can’t be stretched any further will then cause an increase in taxes on the taxpayers that are left. They will be asked to carry a larger and larger share of the cost and taxes will go up not just on the rich but on everyone.
Basically, we are going to be well…you know.
Yep Joe, make us dependent on oil from the Middle East and Russia. Joe Biden, signing the death warrant of the United States, with his “executive orders”.
It’s already having an impact…notice the gas price increase lately? We are usually in the lowest price season now as travel is light. It’s the oil companies upping the price in anticipation of fraudulent biden screwing up our energy independence. Given the importance of energy independence to our country, I’d say he’s coming treason. IMPEACH!
Yes i have. Sunday, the price was 2,19.. ITS ALREADY 2,29- to 2,39 now.
Hypocrites insist we have to eliminate CO2 emissions, but oppose the only energy source that can replace coal, oil, and gas: nuclear power (the safest thing humanity has ever done). Solar and wind can’t do it, at least not reliably. Cost for batteries to provide firm power in an average year would be 4-8 times current total GDP — EVERY YEAR! That won’t cover extreme years, like the “Year without a Summer” in 1816 after Tambora erupted. Then there’s the danger from electromagnetic pulse, caused by the Sun every sixty years or so, which would turn the tiny wires in solar panels into tiny blown fuses.
This is just the first step in China Jo’bama’s plan to get the economy moving again.
“What’s the fastest route to the basement? This ain’t hard. C’mon, man!”
We are all familiar with the Democrat “Never let a serious crisis go to waste” strategy, but we can thank Cloward & Piven for the corollary: “In the absence of a serious crisis, create one.”
And this to all of the regulations that Quid Pro Joe is going to put back onto the businesses and oil companies and we will once again revert right back into being energy dependant to the middle east. This means we will have to have more troops overseas to “Police” and get involved in more of their wars. The three peace treaties that were signed will probably dissolve. Causing even more conflicts we will have to apart of. But the good news is if he keeps printing money without growing the GDP oil will be pegged to the Yen and at that point America as we know it is over. We will be the USSA, the Ununited Socialist States of America.
Under Trump, the US had achieved 100% energy independence… heck, we were one of the largest exporters of energy. Personally, I was enjoying gas at $2 per gallon…. you can kiss that goodbye….
For good, if the dems get their way.
With the corruption that Biden and his son have been involved with, how can this guy even get a security clearance to visit the White House, let alone be POTUS!! This is the biggest joke! We have become a Banana Republic in this Country! This what happens when you take God out of your country and you are easily entertained by athletes and movie stars!!
And with all the corrupt stuff, the entire FBI HAS been up to, HOW CAN ANY OF THEM ever pass a backround check, to own a gun!