XL Pipeline

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2021	2.420	2.587	2.898	2.948	3.076	3.157	3.231	3.255	3.272	3.384	3.491	3.406
2022	3.413	3.611

As you can see above, gas prices have been going up steadily the entire Biden administration. What that tells me is Biden's policies have driven up the prices.

The jobs installing the pipeline are high paying pipe fitter jobs and engineering jobs and they are not useless to those that have them. There is no need to belittle them so. As far as the environment, it is the opposite. What hurts the environment more than a pipeline, is transporting the oil via tanker truck.

Gas prices started going up under the former guy in 2020 due to the pandemic and continued.

Gas prices are going up as America reopens​

Updated 6:33pm June 14, 2020

“It’s no surprise that gasoline prices have increased for the sixth straight week as gasoline demand has hit its highest level since early March as Americans are returning to the roads,” said Patrick DeHaan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy, in a blog post June 8.
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Gas prices vary based on a number of factors, including local competition, fuel demand, refineries, oil and gasoline inventories and transportation costs.

More increases are expected, DeHaan said in the blog post.

"While I don’t see oil’s strength holding too long given that oil demand remains 20-25% below a year ago, I believe the anxiety pushing oil prices up is coming from the fact that the economy may be recovering quicker than most anticipated," DeHaan said. "For now, motorists will likely continue to see gas prices rising for the weeks ahead.”

Gas prices are going up as America reopens, the national average is $2.10 a gallon

Why are gas prices going up? The national average gasoline price continues to rise after record low fuel costs during coronavirus stay-at-home orders.

www.usatoday.com

 

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This is an energy reporter from Forbes also explaining the rises in gas prices and why it isn't Biden's fault or the former guy's fault:

Revisiting The Blame For High Gas Prices

No article of mine has generated more views and more reader feedback than my piece in March of this year: Who Is To Blame For Rising Gasoline Prices? At present, there are nearly 900,000 views, and I continue to get reader feedback over this article on a weekly basis.

The feedback is invariably from men who are angry that Joe Biden is in the White House and it is along the lines of “I bet you feel stupid now” or “Even an idiot can see that Biden is the one who drove up gasoline prices.”
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After a couple of exchanges, they would say “OK, I agree with what you are saying.” I engaged half a dozen readers, and in every case they backed away from their initial angry reaction.

But it’s not a productive use of my time to convince readers one by one that they are operating under misconceptions. I ultimately decided to write this article to address some of the most common misconceptions.

The gist of the article is that there are few actions a president can take to impact gasoline prices in the short term. Those few actions historically have been 1). Release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve; 2). Increase gasoline taxes; or 3). Engage in a war in the Middle East.
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First, immediately upon assuming office, President Biden cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline permit. The project had been rejected by President Obama in late 2015, fast-tracked by President Trump in 2017, and now once more rejected by President Biden in 2021.

Then, Biden suspended new oil and gas leasing and drilling permits for federal land and water.

Those actions, readers were quick to point out, were clearly were behind the rise in gasoline prices. I was willfully blind not to see that, I was told.

Look, I am not defending President Biden’s energy policies. I had already been critical of Biden’s energy decisions. In January I had written The Inherent Risks In President Biden’s Energy Plan, which criticized moves like the Keystone XL cancellation. So I fully understand how these decisions can impact oil and gasoline prices in the longer term — but not in mere months.

For those who insisted that Biden’s actions had quickly driven up gasoline prices, I asked them to explain. They would respond that these moves could eventually restrict oil supplies. True, but not for years. Keystone XL might have impacted oil supplies a decade from now. The oil markets don’t react in real time to events like this.
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So, What’s the Explanation?

Note when oil and gasoline prices began to rise. That rise started in May 2020. Between the first week of May 2020 and the last week of December 2020, oil prices had tripled. Was President Trump to blame for this?

No, the reason oil and gasoline prices rose is that the economy started to open back up from the Covid-19 shutdowns. Those shutdowns had negatively impacted a couple of million barrels of U.S. oil supplies, and those supplies were slow to bounce back once the economy opened back up. That’s why we have soaring oil and gasoline prices.

Keep in mind that the entire world has experienced this. Do people honestly believe that cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline drove up gasoline prices in Tokyo? Further, this price rise has taken place across most commodities. We have seen soaring lumber prices, base metals prices, cotton, oats, sugar — all primarily associated with the Covid-19 impacts on the economy.

Much more at link:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...he-blame-for-high-gas-prices/?sh=7b833135e31e

 

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Increased capacity not yet realized is not contracted to India. This is about building the XL pipeline. Not about this month's oil refining.

That capacity from US wells, which are all privately owned, is not a problem. It's already reaching the refineries. The refineries are currently the bottleneck until they ramp up production from when people were working at home.

 

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Some background on the XL Pipeline​

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The Fight Goes On: Keystone XL Heads Back to Court​

Two and a half years since President Trump tried to revive the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline from the dead, it remains unbuilt and is about to face a new series of legal challenges. Today, environmental groups, including NRDC, filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of key permits that the pipeline needs before it can be built.

The lawsuit alleges that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers failed to evaluate the project’s impacts to hundreds of rivers, streams, and wetlands before issuing permits, which it must do under the National Environmental Policy Act and the Clean Water Act.

In addition, the groups sent notices of our intent to sue President Donald Trump, the Army Corps, and the companies seeking to build Keystone XL and its power-line infrastructure because of the lethal threats to several endangered species—such as the pallid sturgeon, whooping crane, and American burying beetle—posed by the pipeline. This is yet another chapter to the decade-long saga of this unpopular, unnecessary, and unsafe project.

Today’s lawsuit—and the notices of intent to sue—is based largely on the simple fact that, in trying desperately to revive Keystone XL, President Trump and his administration have continually failed to meet their legal duty to evaluate the project’s potential environmental impacts. In the Keystone XL context, this is a big deal: It’s an 830,000-barrel-per-day project that would carry some of the nastiest crude oil on the planet across America’s breadbasket while detonating a carbon bomb in Alberta’s tar sands amid our growing climate crisis. Decisionmakers and the public should not and cannot sign off on a project like this without full knowledge of all the risks it carries.

The Fight Goes On: Keystone XL Heads Back to Court

The Trump administration is determined to build this dirty tar sands oil pipeline. But we’re even more determined to stop it from ever happening.

www.nrdc.org

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Supreme Court deals major blow to Keystone XL project​

The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for several pipeline projects to proceed under a fast-track permitting process but excluded the controversial Keystone XL expansion from their ruling, forcing major delays.

Though the case is a partial win for the Trump administration, the exclusion of Keystone XL is a major defeat for a President who made good on a campaign promise to move forward with the project through executive order.

A federal judge in May sided with environmental groups, requiring that new oil and gas pipelines must undergo a lengthy permitting and regulation process in order to build across bodies of water.

That judge's ruling canceled the so-called "Nationwide Permit 12" for several new pipelines, which authorized and fast-tracked work on pipelines that run across bodies of water. That ruling stated that the Army Corps of Engineers did not adequately consider the projects' environmental impact on endangered species. The ruling required the projects that received such a permit to stop construction while the environmental impact study was completed.

Supreme Court deals major blow to Keystone XL project

The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for several pipeline projects to proceed under a fast-track permitting process but excluded the controversial Keystone XL expansion from their ruling, forcing major delays.

www.cnn.com

 

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The Keystone Pipeline system has been the subject of controversy for years as environmentalists and others have fought to prevent construction and expansion of this oil-delivery network. On January 20, 2021, President Joe Biden issued numerous executive orders, including one that aimed to protect public health and the environment by restoring science to tackle the climate crisis. One of this order’s tenants revoked the March 2019 permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline, noting that the pipeline “disserves” the United States, especially in terms of the country’s renewed efforts to combat climate change.

This executive order came in the wake of the United States Supreme Court’s 2020 ruling, which saw the justices siding with environmental groups and ruling that the Keystone XL Pipeline (KXL) — a rerouted addition to the existing system — would need to undergo a much lengthier and more detailed permitting process before the expansion could occur. At that time, the ruling represented a victory for those who opposed the project. Now, even with hopes of future construction completely dashed, the KXL remains a hotly debated issue. In fact, its current state is almost as fraught as its history.

Why Is the Keystone XL Pipeline Still So Disputed?

The Keystone XL pipeline has a history fraught with turmoil, resistance and legal battles. Learn why this project is so divisive.

www.reference.com

 

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Life under democrat rule is costly. According to them, it's good for us. I wonder if voters agree.

Joe Biden promised to eliminate fossil fuels. It's on video more than once. The democrats want to eliminate fossil fuels, AOC says the world is ending in about 8 years, she originally said 10-12 but that was in 2016. So all these price increases are actually just fine with them. Biden said he was going to cut all subsidies for fossil fuels, he knew that would cause prices to go up. Now the inflation and the oil and gas prices rising is playing into what the left wants. Higher fossil fuels will drive folks into wind and solar and cars that start at about $60,000 apiece. Does Joe care? Doesn't look like it.
We can help ourselves and our allies if Joe will restart XL pipeline to aid delivery to the refineries and help in the increase of tar sands oil. If Joe would tell the regulating agencies to speed up the permits for drilling on the leases it would help, he hasn't done that. If Joe would promise not to stick a knife in the back of oil companies after the current crisis passes, he might get them to increase production but why would then under the current administrations position on fossil fuel. Why put millions into new leases, permits, exploration, extraction, shipping and refining when you realize that just as it starts paying off Joe is going to hit you with more regulation in his promise to kill the fossil fuel industry.

 

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The Keystone XL Pipeline Is Dead, but TC Energy Still Owns Hundreds of Miles of Rights of Way​

Many landowners who opposed the pipeline have begun a new fight, trying to regain control of the land they ceded to the company.​

When Richard Johnson heard that the Keystone XL pipeline had been canceled earlier this month, he felt a surge of relief. Johnson’s ranch lies directly on the pipeline’s planned route through the sandy plains of eastern Nebraska, and he had been tangling in court with the developer ever since the corporation used eminent domain to condemn a strip of his property in 2019.

But relief quickly gave way to confusion and uncertainty when he learned that the condemnation would not necessarily be reversed, even if the pipeline is never built.

The Keystone XL Pipeline Is Dead, but TC Energy Still Owns Hundreds of Miles of Rights of Way - Inside Climate News

When Richard Johnson heard that the Keystone XL pipeline had been canceled earlier this month, he felt a surge of relief. Johnson’s ranch lies directly on the pipeline’s planned route through the sandy plains of eastern Nebraska, and he had been tangling in court with the developer ever since...

insideclimatenews.org

 

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More fallacies


From December 2021;

Why Biden is approving public lands oil drilling permits faster than Trump did — and angering environmentalists

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The Biden administration has issued more permits for oil and gas drilling on public land per month than the Trump administration did in its first three years, according to a new analysis of federal data. The consumer advocacy group Public Citizen found that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has approved an average of 333 drilling permits per month since Biden took office earlier this year. By comparison, in 2017, Trump's first year in office, BLM approved an average of 245 drilling permits per month. In 2018 and 2019, BLM also approved fewer than 300 permits per month, but monthly permits jumped to 452 in 2020 as fossil fuel companies stocked up on them in anticipation of an administration less supportive of drilling. The industry’s fears were apparently unfounded.

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The high number of drilling permits issued under Biden concerns government watchdogs who complain that fossil fuel extraction on public land worsens climate change and shortchanges taxpayers — as the Department of Interior (DOI) itself found in a recent report.

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Prentice-Dunn ran the numbers on applications and approvals and found that the Biden administration is approving a higher percentage of drilling permit applications than the aggressively pro-fossil-fuel Trump administration did.

Why Biden is approving public lands oil drilling permits faster than Trump did — and angering environmentalists

The Biden administration has issued more permits for oil and gas drilling on public land per month than the Trump administration did in its first three years, according to a new analysis of federal data.

news.yahoo.com

 

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More fallacies


From December 2021;

Why Biden is approving public lands oil drilling permits faster than Trump did — and angering environmentalists

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The Biden administration has issued more permits for oil and gas drilling on public land per month than the Trump administration did in its first three years, according to a new analysis of federal data. The consumer advocacy group Public Citizen found that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has approved an average of 333 drilling permits per month since Biden took office earlier this year. By comparison, in 2017, Trump's first year in office, BLM approved an average of 245 drilling permits per month. In 2018 and 2019, BLM also approved fewer than 300 permits per month, but monthly permits jumped to 452 in 2020 as fossil fuel companies stocked up on them in anticipation of an administration less supportive of drilling. The industry’s fears were apparently unfounded.

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The high number of drilling permits issued under Biden concerns government watchdogs who complain that fossil fuel extraction on public land worsens climate change and shortchanges taxpayers — as the Department of Interior (DOI) itself found in a recent report.

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Prentice-Dunn ran the numbers on applications and approvals and found that the Biden administration is approving a higher percentage of drilling permit applications than the aggressively pro-fossil-fuel Trump administration did.

Why Biden is approving public lands oil drilling permits faster than Trump did — and angering environmentalists

The Biden administration has issued more permits for oil and gas drilling on public land per month than the Trump administration did in its first three years, according to a new analysis of federal data.

news.yahoo.com

What a funny article. The title tries to imply something that they reveal not to be true in the text.

• Excluding January, when former President Donald Trump was in office for most of the month, the agency approved 333 drilling permits per month in 2021. That average was up by more than 35% from when Trump took office in 2017, but still down by more than 25% from 2020.
• Under Biden, monthly public lands permit approvals peaked at 652 in April 2021 (Figure 2) but have been below 2020 levels since summer after falling under 300 in July.