Transportation Secretary nominee Pete Buttigieg defends Biden's elimination of Keystone pipeline jobs, saying those workers need to get “different ones”pic.twitter.com/T56f7aKp8D
— Tommy Pigott (@TommyPigott) January 21, 2021
The decision to stop the project is a terrible decision. In response to a direct question about jobs lost, Buttigieg mumbles rambling platitudes about climate change and green jobs. They have not thought through the consequences of their decision because they don’t care. The decision is an ideological decision divorced from facts on the ground, economic concerns, or what is best for the country. The decision fulfills some kind of green ritual sacrifice. I don’t know how else to interpret it.
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— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) January 23, 2021
It is almost as if the Democrats will cut off their nose to spite their face when it comes to preferred green pieties. These decisions which effect thousands of jobs, a major economic sector, income for multiple states, American international competitiveness, and international oil and gas prices seem completely divorced from the normal business analyses on which such decisions should be based. These are not hard-boiled, rational decisions. These are faith-based type decisions rooted in the secular religion of climate. Decisions based on the flaccid, academic, unproven, pseudo-science of global warming and the vain belief that man can change the earth’s climate by painting asphalt white, or not building a pipeline, or not drilling for oil. It is soft, confused reasoning that can’t stand even surficial probing as the questioning of Buttigieg shows.
Decisions like this will soon have a significant depressing effect on American and global economies and new business development.