Common Sense Energy: 6/11/21

A recent poll shows that a bipartisan majority of Americans support pipelines.

Washington Examiner: The poll reveals that 52.3% of voters believe “Pipelines are a critical part of our nation’s infrastructure and they must be expanded and protected.” Another 28.5% of voters believe that “pipelines are very reliable and much better for the environment long term than trucks, trains, or ships.”

Those numbers dwarf those who say, “No new pipelines should be built and existing ones closed,” at 6.9%, and, “Pipelines are too risky. Truck, trains, and ships are much safer,” at 1.9%.

While President Biden is talking up the threat of “climate change” to our troops on the front lines of freedom, China is producing more greenhouse gas emissions than every other developed country combined,  burning more coal than the rest of the entire world combined, and is currently boosting its coal output despite promising to cut its emissions. The CCP has clearly been emboldened by Joe Biden waging an all-out war on fossil fuels here at home.

The result of this war, as the first sentence of Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal so eloquently puts it, is that “the U.S. is barreling toward one of the greatest self-inflicted wounds in its history.”

Here’s why:

Mr. Biden’s anti-carbon fusillade will have no effect on the climate as global demand for fossil fuels will continue to increase for decades no matter what the U.S. does. Meantime, Russia, China and Iran will take advantage of America’s astonishing fossil-fuel retreat…Progressives want to surrender one of America’s major strategic economic advantages in the name of saving the climate. But banishing fossil fuels in the U.S. won’t eliminate carbon emissions, which will be produced somewhere else. So will the jobs, economic growth and geopolitical leverage. 

Read the full editorial HERE.

Remember back on Joe Biden’s first day in office when he cancelled the permit to build the Keystone XL Pipeline?  (That was a few months before Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said pipelines were the best way to transport fuel.)

Anyhoo, the developer of the Keystone Pipeline officially cancelled the $8 billion infrastructure project and its estimated 11,000 jobs, including 8,000 union jobs totaling $1.6 billion in wages.

As they say,  if you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes.

Americans are paying a DOLLAR more for gasoline now than they were a year ago. The current national average is $3.07/gallon. It was $2.07/gallon one year ago.

G7 Summit To Discuss Climate Change: From Friday, June 11 to Sunday, June 13, the G7 nations will be meeting in the UK. The main theme of the summit will be taking the “build back better” mantra global. One of the policy focuses will be on climate change to “protect the future of our planet by moving to net zero and providing financial support for developing countries to do the same.”

“Environmental Justice For Coal Country” Hearing: On Tuesday, June 15, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources will hold a hearing called “Environmental Justice for Coal Country: Supporting Communities Through the Energy Transition.”

Colonial Pipeline Attack Hearing: On Tuesday, June 15, the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Innovation will hold a hearing on “Lessons from the Federal Response to the Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attack.”

Senate Budget Hearings: On Tuesday, June 15, a Senate Appropriations subcommittees will hold a hearing on the FY 2022 Department of Agriculture budget and the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee will hold a hearing on the President’s proposed Department of Energy budget. And, on Wednesday, June 16, a Senate appropriations subcommittee will hold a hearing on the FY 2022 Department of Interior budget.