Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg admitted during a Washington Post live event Friday that pipelines are the most efficient way to move petroleum products, despite the Biden administration previously revoking pipeline permits, including Keystone XL.
Buttigieg sat down with the Post‘s political reporter Eugene Scott to talk about the administration’s far-left efforts on infrastructure, which will cause the American taxpayers millions.
Scott pressed Buttigieg by saying, “Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm said earlier this week, pipelines are still the best way to move oil,” then asked if the secretary agrees with the statement.
Buttigieg responded by saying, “certainly.” He then continued, especially “when you’re talking about the efficiency of moving petroleum products.”
“That’s why we have pipelines,” he added after.
Scott was referring to earlier in the week when Granholm had also admitted Tuesday, “pipe is the best way to go” when transporting fuel, during a press briefing regarding the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack. She continued to say that pipelines are the best way to transport fuel across a “particular area of the country” which, also contradicts the administration’s decision to revoke the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.
Additionally, on Wednesday, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry also contradicted the current administration. Kerry, when asked by Republican Rep. Darrell Issa (CA) if it is “true, the pipelines are more carbon-delivery efficient than trains or trucks or other forms of delivery?”
Kerry immediately responded and said, “Yeah, that is true.”
As previously reported by Breitbart News, on President Joe Biden first day in office, the newly inaugurated president kept his campaign promise to revoke the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, which in turn killed thousands of jobs:
Biden revoked the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, as promised. In so doing, he killed some 11,000 direct jobs that the pipeline’s construction was to have created, and an estimated 60,000 indirect jobs in secondary, related industries.
Over 1,000 workers already on the job — mostly union workers — will be laid off as a result of the decision, even if it is litigated, as many expect it will be, in the courts.
Joel Pollak, Breitbart News’s Senior Editor-at-Large, said Biden “may have set a single-day record for the number of jobs killed by an American president.”
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We aren't stupid enough to think you statue toppling Communists care about us but only to purge us!!!
An egg carton is the best way we know to transport eggs too! So what? The big problem is that the scum President we now have doesn’t care and he proved it when he put 14,000 pipeline workers out of a job on his first day in office.
Agreed, shutting down the Pipeline was a political move, not an environmental decision... pipelines are the safest and most environmentally sound system for transporting crude and refined petroleum products. The shutting down of the Pipeline is just one of several policies the Marxists are using to shut down our economy... and too, destroy America as a world power. This is about asymmetrical war... using economic policy to destroy nations.
Why do we need experts to tell us something we already know. Shutting down an energy source in American will hurt the average American. It should be considered an act of subversion and the perpetrator should be punished. Biden should resign for shutting down the Keystone pipeline and harming the American people. What has Biden done period to help America.
Pipelines are not the issue... they are simply one tool used by the Marxist to destroy our economy... the issue is political not operational or even environmental. Pipelines, in general, are the safest and most environmentally secure means for transporting refined crude oil products for retail consumption.
As for the XL pipeline permit... several courts have upheld the Permit to build the Pipeline as permitted to proceed. Congress, both Houses, Passed a Bill authorizing the pipeline; although, it was never sent to the President for his signature, as it was unnecessary, once the Courts ruled the Pipeline was properly permitted and legally could go forward. Pres. Biden's EO is unlawful in that it ignores several court cases and orders permitting the pipeline to be built.
See: Keystone Pipeline - Wikipedia
Well, President Biden shot himself in the foot on Immigration, even before being sworn in, then again by stopping work on the pipeline. So sad. We can only hope he has forgotten how to reload....
Maybe he should reaim, this time above the schoulders!
Sometimes people in the administration actually tell the truth; unfortunately they never listen to themseles when they do. Can we afford these Communist losers for 3 yrs 8 months more? I think not!