The Democrat agenda depends on deliberately driving up energy prices in order to make their green energy boondoggles appear less outrageously wasteful and destructive than they really are.
That approach has been painfully obvious from the beginning of the Biden administration, which has done everything possible to drive up the cost of energy by throttling supply. One of the very first things Joe Biden did upon occupying the Oval Office was to kill the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have been able to deliver hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil to U.S. refineries every single day.
Next on the chopping block appears to be the Line 5 pipeline that transports over 500,000 barrels of oil per day from Alberta, Canada to Michigan, ultimately feeding numerous refineries in Ohio and beyond. The pipeline has been targeted for elimination by Michigan’s Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer, forcing Canada to invoke treaty obligations to keep it open. The Biden administration’s claims that it does not intend to shut down the pipeline offer little reassurance based on its consistent hostility toward the energy industry.