Posted on 03/03/2022 8:44:58 AM PST by Hojczyk
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour” that to combat oil prices skyrocketing amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden did not want to authorize the Keystone Pipeline.
According to Buttigieg, it would be “galloping after permanent solutions to immediate short term problems.”
Anchor Stephanie Ruhle said, “I want to stay on gas for another moment. You’re absolutely right, the president does not set the price of gas, but he can influence it. And while releasing some strategic reserves matters, given how much has been released, it is really just a drop in the bucket. Are there things, and I realize this is controversial, it has huge environmental impacts, could the president possibly consider authorizing the Keystone Pipeline? Or working something out with Iran?”
Buttigieg said, “Look, the president has said that all options are on the table. But we also need to make sure that we are not galloping after permanent solutions to immediate short term problems, where more strategic and tactical actions in the short term that can make a difference, like what you have with the strategic reserve, which exists partly in order to respond to situations like this.”
He added, “The president has laid policies that are going help cushion the impacts of any volatility in energy markets in the future by building up more of a diversified and homegrown energy base for this country.”
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This guy is really an idiot.
We need a permanent solution for Buttplugg and his fellow travelers.
Wouldn’t a diversified and home grown energy base include using more of our own resources????
Buttgigger is non-essential to me.
Can we permanently cancel him?
We already buy Iranian oil..................
<< “more strategic and tactical actions in the short term that can make a difference, like what you have with the strategic reserve,” >>
Yeah, a difference for 36 hours.
My God, these people are in charge?
So we don’t want permanent solutions? We only want short term ad hoc solutions to problems? No longer term thinking is allowed?? What the heck is he trying to say?
People accuse me of being a Putin stooge—but at least I don’t propose limiting US oil production.
Butt-man is the real deal!
ButtEdge is a WEFist.
Does that apply to LGBTQXYZ?
I think #2 liquids have eaten this guys brain. He is a huge idiot. He has no business being in charge of anything that concerns my country.
Congress critters don’t like to fix the problems, they like to fix the blame as election issues, year after year.
If we actually had solutions then these politicians might be out of jobs. Extend and capitalize on all crises.
Butt boy is the poster boy for Biden’s plan to destroy the nation by putting the most incompetent people possible in the highest possible positions of power.
Total incompetent and idiot.
Our politicians don’t even realize how idiotic they sound when they open their mouths..
Why do we put up with this??
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