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Authorizing the completion of the Keystone XL pipeline to lower fuel prices and give the United States more leverage against Russia would amount to "galloping after permanent solutions to immediate short term problems," Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in an interview with MSNBC late Wednesday. Amid skyrocketing oil prices accompanying Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Republican governors and lawmakers are urging President Biden to reverse his cancellation of Keystone on his first day in office and use some of the 9,000 untapped oil leases on public lands to counter dependence on Russian oil. MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle, the host of "The...