Sen. Joe Manchin is asking President Joe Biden to restart construction of the Keystone XL pipeline as gas prices continue to skyrocket across the country.
Gas prices have risen steadily since Biden took office, when he made a slew of changes to America's energy policies, breaking with the policies of President Donald Trump over concerns about "Environmental justice."
After these statistics became public, a coalition of Democratic senators called on Biden to draw from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve, used to guarantee America's energy needs in the face of energy shortages or disasters.
Specifically, Republicans have criticized Biden's decisions to place a moratorium on the leasing of federal lands to oil and natural gas companies and his decision to halt construction on the Keystone XL pipeline.
In his statement on Biden's decision to withdraw from the SPR, Manchin wrote, "I continue to call on President Biden to responsibly increase energy production here at home and to reverse course to allow the Keystone XL pipeline to be built which would have provided our country with up to 900,000 barrels of oil per day from Canada, one of our closest allies."
Now, Manchin is asking Biden to reverse this decision, citing national security concerns and concerns over America's energy independence.
Biden has undertaken extensive negotiations with the organization that have largely been fruitless, causing Republicans to criticize the president for exporting America's energy needs.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/manchin-asks-biden-to-restart-keystone-xl-pipeline_4120630.html
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