By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-24 23:38:58 | Updated at 2024-11-26 11:26:44
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Reversing Biden's Legacy: Trump Reportedly to Revive Keystone XL Pipeline; Workers Ecstatic
Red State ^ | 11/24/24 | Bob Hoge
Posted on 11/24/2024 3:30:13 PM PST by CFW
It was one of Joe Biden’s first moves as president (and a message to the country on how he would rule): shutting down the Keystone XL pipeline, a 1,200-mile Canada-to-Nebraska crude project that would have employed thousands of workers and transported up to 830,000 barrels of oil per day.
Now President-elect Donald Trump reportedly wants to send his own message and restart the project, and although bringing it back to life would present numerous hurdles, oil workers are reportedly ecstatic over the idea.
"It's a breath of fresh air. We're running on cloud nine," former Keystone Pipeline worker Bugsy Allen said on "Fox & Friends Weekend," Sunday.
"It will make a big difference as far as your energy cost, your food cost, your gas that you put in your cars. It is actually going to be the primary start of bringing everything… down for the American people that we have suffered so much in the last administration."
Watch:
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The future of the pipeline has gone back and forth between Republican and Democrat administrations, with Obama first refusing to approve it, then Trump coming in 2017 and putting it back on track, then energy-hating Biden nuking it once more. Trump reportedly considers it a first-day goal:
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: drill; energy; keystone; trump
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It will be interesting to see if this could be done. From what I understand, the materials for the project have been sold off, and of course, all the workers for the pipeline have (hopefully) found other employment. However, I'm sure many would be thrilled to return to the project as evidenced by the words of the oil-worker in the video. Such a project would jump-start the economy in amazing ways.
"OMG, it's a breath of fresh air, we're running on cloud nine, the American people are gonna see what energy will do for a country!"
1 posted on 11/24/2024 3:30:13 PM PST by CFW
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2 posted on 11/24/2024 3:32:16 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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3 posted on 11/24/2024 3:36:38 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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“”and of course, all the workers for the pipeline have (hopefully) found other employment.””
That’s what I was thinking. Certainly they couldn’t have been idle all this time and hopefully they’ve been working at other jobs and won’t have any trouble moving back to the pipeline. Of course, getting it back up and running will take a lot of time also - especially if all the materials have been sold. That does sound familiar!
To: Larry Lucido
The oil is going to China….it will never be restarted..
5 posted on 11/24/2024 3:37:48 PM PST by Hojczyk ( )
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