Joe's Tale Of Three Pipelines

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   Sharlee01posted 3 years ago

   
   Joe Do YOu Know What You Are Signing? Do You?
   
   January 20, Biden’s very first day as president, he shut down the Keystone XL pipeline. He gave11,000  citizens that had high-paying jobs the boot, yeah pink slips. Most of these jobs were good-paying union jobs. While these unemployed American workers went on unemployment,  Russian President Vladimir Putin most likely had a big wonderful party, toasting Lod Joe with a shot of Vodka.
   
   Today Canadian oil is trapped underground. And yes Canada's r Prime Minister Trudeau was very displeased with the USA going back on their agreement.
   
   Keystone’s cancellation curbed long-term supplies of crude oil. and quickly boosted global prices for Russia’s key export.    Indeed, for this and other reasons, crude has crept from $53-per-barrel at Biden’s inauguration to over  $66  — up 25%
   
   Let's move on to the second tale the Colonial Pipeline. Which was shut down on May 7 after a Russian ransomware hacker attack.   Carteresque gasoline lines soon stretched from Georgia to Washington, D.C.  What did Ol' Joe do? He hid in the White House and was silent until May 10. He then submerged and offered up a  tepid blurb that exonerated the Kremlin, yes the Kremlin.  I ask,  where was Biden’s outrage? Why did he not publicly demands that Putin answer for this hack? Yes, be tough on Putin, as he said he would when he campaigned.
   
   No, what he did was reward the Kremlin for its acquiescence in the Colonial caper by ---- you may have guessed  --- scrapping sanctions against you got it, the third pipeline tale, the  Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline that runs between Russia and Germany.    Biden was asked by the press why he decided to take such a step.
   
   Biden Stated --- "Because it’s almost completely finished, number one. "  Then continues on with these confusing words. 
   
   "The idea that anything that — and it’s not like I can allow Germany to do something they’re not."  This sentence makes no sense whatsoever... No really, it puts me in mind of his "you know the thing" statement.
   
   I must also point out Biden’s betrayal also fails on environmental grounds. Germany will not import American liquefied natural gas, as President Trump pressed Chancellor Angela Merkel to do.  Nor will Germany swap gas for wind farms, solar panels, or geothermal plants. Instead, Germany will burn Russian natural gas. While that fuel is one-third cleaner than oil and twice as clean as coal, Germany and some neighboring nations still will turn gas into energy and yes BINGO, carbon dioxide. So Joe, what about your concern about the environment?  Does this all seem half-ass backward?
   
   Page 308 of Keystone’s environmental impact statement says that its oil would have generated up to 178 million metric tons of CO2 annually.  What did Joe state?  "Killing Keystone was a beautiful thing."
   
   Nord Stream 2 would carry up to 55 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Ust-Luga, Russia to Greifswald, Germany. That gas, according to Gen Less’s online calculator, would generate 132 million metric tons of CO2. So, by speeding up Nord Stream 2, Biden will have combusted 74 percent of the anti-global-warming "benefit" that he created by junking Keystone.
   
   Environmentalists should be enraged, should they not?
   
   Nord Stream 2  is estimated to add $3.3 billion to Russia’s annual GDP. Though a tidy sum, the Kremlin’s jackpot is really more geopolitical.
   
   Nord Stream 2 would enable the Putin regime to further weaponize Russia’s energy resources to exert political pressure throughout Europe," four bipartisan U.S. House members warned Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a February 17 letter.
   
   IMO Russia’s obvious intention has been to form an alliance with Germany and Austria (also with the Netherlands and Belgium) against Eastern and Northern Europe. NS2 is Russia’s most daring attempt to break up the EU.
   
   Finally --  Biden announced that he will meet on June 16, 2021with Putin in Geneva, following G-7 and NATO conclaves.   So it is evident that Putin will pay not even pay a diplomatic price after citizens corked U.S. fuel supplies in exchange for a $4.4 million Bitcoin ransom.
   
   This president Biden has clearly squandered Trump’s hard-won America's energy independence, added 11,000 American pipeline workers to America's unemployment lines, and screwed up Trump’s diplomacy, which had Germany now depending on Russia for natural gas. Now, Germany will become addicted — not to U.S. liquefied natural gas, but gas from the very adversary that NATO was designed to defeat.
   
   Any thoughts?  This kind of crazy is just hard to comprehend...
   
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      Sharlee01posted 3 years agoin reply to this

      
      Better keep on eye on Old Joe --- Because while we sleep, Joe is baken the bread!  Or should I say somebody is...
      
      The true cost to taxpayers to belong to the Good Old Boys Club The Pairs Climate Accord --- Actually I can't find a number on how much Joe has promised.
      
      . At the end of 2020, however, the Green Climate Fund had only raised $7 billion, ... But now the cash cow has come back into the herd.   https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2021/ … agreement/
      
      How much do we pay for the Paris climate accord?
      This removed the requirement for the United States Congress to ratify the agreement. In April 2016, the United States became a signatory to the Paris Agreement and accepted it by executive order in September 2016. President Obama committed the United States to contribute US$3 billion to the Green Climate Fund.
      
      "Pete Betts, an associate fellow at London-based think tank Chatham House who led climate negotiations for the European Union when the Paris deal was struck, said the United States will need to match its promises with financial commitments too.
      
      The United States under Obama pledged to deliver $3 billion to the Green Climate Fund to help vulnerable countries fight climate change. It has delivered only $1 billion so far.
      
      “The U.S. will need to put some money on the table, and also encourage others to do the same,” he said.
      
      Biden has tapped former Secretary of State John Kerry as his international climate envoy and is expected to set up a meeting in the coming weeks with global counterparts."
      
      https://www.reuters.com/business/energy … 021-01-20/

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         wildernessposted 3 years agoin reply to this

         I like the "cash cow" mention, for that is exactly how the rest of the world sees the US.  While the EU sits back and watches, the US is required to foot the bills - a great reason to leave the Paris Accords behind us.  We don't need to foot the bill for the rest of the world.

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            Sharlee01posted 3 years agoin reply to this

            The Government has had a long history of trying an attempt to solve problems with cash or committees that start out with a bang, and then they just Poof disappear. Joe has initiated 90-day communities --- I lost count (Must laugh).  And none of these committees will ever be heard of again.
            
            I appreciated  President Trump's minding our pennies, in regards to foolish spending, and pulling out of all the fluff clubs like  The Pair Climate Accord, and WHO, and the Iran deal... Oh my, I am sure I forgot one or two. Trump was a pure common-sense problem solver and solved most problems to some extent one way or the other.
            
            I thank you for commenting, my post just does not attract comments.  I mean factual thorns in the side are never comfortable.  However, I post them to keep a track of what I feel in the end will ultimately be the downfall of a disastrous administration. I will admit the flubs of the administration are hard to keep up with.  And who would have thought we would witness almost daily problems that the Government just ignores.
            
            I mean when Trump was President we were bombarded most of the time with what he said, not his deeds.  No props for his accomplishment, just he said this or did you see Melania brush away his hand, not to mention Russia Russia crazy.

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      Sharlee01posted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Colonial Pipeline has confirmed it paid a $4.4m (£3.1m) ransom to the cyber-criminal gang responsible.
      https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canad … sponsible.
      
      Guess we can expect many hacks when companies pay a ransom.

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         wildernessposted 3 years agoin reply to this

         Yep.  While I sympathize with companies desperate to get back into business, we ALL need to understand that blackmail simply must not be paid.  Once you pay the Danegeld...

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            Sharlee01posted 3 years agoin reply to this

            I was checking The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll, and I think they were hacked... Here is what I found ---
            
            Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
            Sponsored by The ANTIFA by Jack Posobiec
            Wednesday, June 02, 2021
            
            Not sure you know Jack, but Google his name. This is really very funny.
            
            So, it does not look like the hacker changed the polls, but who knows.
            
            https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public … rack_june2

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      CHRIS57posted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Please, for Americans talking about others CO2 emissions is like throwing stones in the glasshouse. Especially if you add the heavy CO2 rucksack to the fracking associated fossile fuel production in the USA. 
      
      As you mentioned the Northstream 2 project, the gas pipeline between Russia and Germany:
      
      Imho it was brutal Mob style pressing of protection money by the US, in the sense: you (Germany) buy our (US) gas so we can protect you from evil Russia. The thing is: not too many Germans and Europeans believe that Russia is a threat. On the contrary: Even in the darkest times of the cold war Russia/Soviet Union was a reliable supplier of natural resources.
      
      With the German and European demand for natural gas on the retreat, the real purpose of NS2 is to gain independance from supply lines through Ukraine and southern Europe. And Ukraine is deliberately destabilized by the US to create a roadblock between Europe and Russia/Asia/China (the big landmass).
      
      This is my opinion. The news  coverage in the US media on this topic (NS2) is full of disinformation, call it propaganda. And it doesn´t matter, left or right wing media. Different country, different perspective, different view on geopolitics.

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         Sharlee01posted 3 years agoin reply to this

         All good points. I will even agree with you in regard to Russia not being the big old threat that they have been made out to be for many decades.
         
         I was hoped to point out the sad fact that the current administration show hypocrisy closing the Keystione down, yet pretty much approving of the Russia NS2.  And you hit the nail on the head in regard to the USA media... My gosh, they pretty much make up our news at this point. We have talk jocks dishing up propaganda 24/7.
         
         America is failing, going downhill quickly, and what is most Bazar the majority are on board for the ride.

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            CHRIS57posted 3 years agoin reply to this

            It always puzzled me why some media were bashing the Trump administration for their policies towards Russia. Now the Biden administration is accused from the other corner for doing pretty much the same.
            
            Concerning energy and climate/CO2 related politics, the US is very much behind most of the world and certainly all of peer western countries. It is high time to counteract. Let me explain:
            
            The US uses almost twice as much energy to create its GDP in relative terms than western countries, the EU does. This competitive disadvantage (for the whole economy) was countered by low taxation of energy and by subsidizing the energy producers (with a minority of workforce associated).
            
            Now the climate change scenario becomes eminent. It is no more possible to neglect the impacts (How many "once in a century" storms and hurricanes do US insurance companies have to compensate for in a single year?) I address this from a pure economic standpoint, has nothing to do with green thinking. What i am saying is that neglecting the climate change will have a significant impact on competitivity. It will harm the country economically and the world with climate running amok.
            
            Having said this, any policy to reduce energy consumption, possibly by making energy more expensive or less easy to access will move the US into the right direction. It will harm tactically in the beginning but will be benefitial strategically.
            
            So, Biden is no better or worse than Trump when it comes to appeasement policies towards Russia, but Biden is definitely moving in the right direction concerning energy. This may not be loved by oil workers in Texas, but eventually they or their children will find out, that 20th century politics don´t help in the 21st century.  Just saying..

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               Sharlee01posted 3 years agoin reply to this

               Actually, it's odd Trump put sanctions on Russia in regard to the pipeline not to decrease pollution problems but -The Trump administration fears the pipeline will tighten Russia's grip over Europe's energy supply and reduce its own share of the lucrative European market for American liquefied natural gas. President Trump has said the pipeline, owned by Russia's Gazprom, could turn Germany into a "hostage of Russia".
               The US sanctions angered Russia and the European Union, which says it should be able to decide its own energy policies.  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50875935
               
               Now Biden that claims he is very much against pollution has removed the Trump administration sanctions.   IMO Biden is showing hypocrisy on all counts. 
               
               I will admit I have not really kept up with the USA's progress on bringing down CO2 --- Came up with these numbers on a quick search,
               
               Are US CO2 emissions decreasing?
               According to the US Energy Information Administration, US CO2 emissions in 2019 were the lowest they have been since 1992. Per capita emissions were lower in 2019 than they've been at any time since at least 1950.   source   https://www.climatechangenews.com/2020/ … ent-trump/  I must admit very interesting subject.
               
               Well, Biden has made no friends of the oil companies and workers here, However, he certainly must have garnered some love from Russia and the EU.
               
               So do you feel the Russian pipeline will offer little problems to the environment?  More so than the Canadian Keystone pipeline?

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                  CHRIS57posted 3 years agoin reply to this

                  Let me pick up the pipeline topic first:
                  It is by far the most cost effective way to transport fossile fuels and that is why they are built. There may be some minor impacts on ecology in the construction process, but nothing of any importance to CO2 or climate. So it all boils down to what and how much is transported - and that is a matter of consumer demand. A new pipeline will not necessarily increase consumer demand. It will only increase competition in the energy sector and/or helps to avoid unsafe transportation alternatives (the NS2 objective).
                  
                  Doesn´t matter: a new pipeline in Europe or in North America, same issues. It is not about overground, underground, through the forests. It is about what is in the pipelines.
                  
                  Bringing down CO2 is directly linked to energy production and consumption. With almost twice the consumption of Europe per GDP the CO2 output is also twice as high. And if you consider the energy sources then the US is behind even further (Just compare: USA electricity generation 64% relying of fossiles, Germany same number 47% in 2020). And only fossile fuels contribute to CO2. 
                  
                  North Stream 2 will not add any CO2 to the carbon footprint of Germany/central Europe. So why should anyone oppose it from an ecology standpoint?
                  
                  Mr. Trump had a different agenda, that did not contain environmental, climate issues. So he could only say: We, the US mob protect you from the other big boy on the block, and that is why you have to buy our gas. For Biden it is much easier: No additional CO2, no pollution, no saving of the climate necessary.

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      Sharlee01posted 2 years agoin reply to this

      Here is where we are today, what did Joe's decisions on pipelines result in.
      
      Keystone XL pipeline. ---   If completed, the Keystone XL would have added 510,000 barrels (81,000 m3) per day increasing the total capacity up to 1.1 million barrels (170,000 m3) per day. Today we tapped national reserves, and beg OPEC for oil. 
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_ … 2C000%20m3)%20per%20day.
      
      Nord Stream 2 --   Russia close to using natural gas as a weapon in Europe's gas crunch - Biden energy adviser  https://www.reuters.com/business/energy … 021-10-25/
      
      
      Nord Stream 2  -   "LONDON — Russia has opted against sending more natural gas supplies to Europe, curbing hopes that Moscow may ease its grip on the market shortly after President Vladimir Putin said the country would be prepared to help.
      
      Highly anticipated auction results on Monday showed Russia’s state gas giant Gazprom had not booked additional gas transit capacity for November either through the Ukrainian pipeline system or lines into western Europe via Poland."
      
      https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/19/energy- … urope.html
      
      Colonial Pipeline --- "Ransomware attacks on Colonial Pipeline, JBS Foods, and other major organizations made headlines in 2021, and show no sign of slowing down. Across the world, hackers are exploiting security weaknesses and holding the data of companies, governments and healthcare organizations hostage, sometimes demanding tens of millions of dollars in payment."  https://illinois.touro.edu/news/the-10- … f-2021.php

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   Ken Burgessposted 3 years ago

   I enjoyed the first few paragraphs as they were factual and did not wander into opinion (not that its bad to have an opinion) I would add to that list which impacts the price of oil the fact that on day 1 he halted all drilling on Federal Land, which impacted Texas especially, putting tens of thousands out of work.
   
   Yes, Biden is a great ally to Big Oil, Higher Gas Prices, and Russia... his actions speak in direct opposition to his words.

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      Sharlee01posted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Ya got me... LOL  --- yes my opinion seeped in, as it always does. Thanks for taking the time to comment. Always respect your view.

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