Bluegrass Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) played down President Joe Biden’s energy policy. 

He said Biden’s moves including the removal of the Keystone XL Pipeline permit and rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement are the “wrong prescription” for the country. He said that revoking the permit on the Keystone XL oil pipeline is a “massive setback for energy security in North America.” 

“There’s nothing green about a tsunami of pink slips for American workers, or carting Canadian crude around in trucks and trains instead of a pipeline,” McConnell said. “This piecemeal green new deal is the wrong prescription. Wrong for the environment, wrong for national security. And most of all for the working Americans who will soon be formerly working Americans if this keeps up.”

McConnel added that the President, “with a stroke of a pen” is consciously stripping jobs from  Americans and decreasing domestic energy, The Epoch Times reported.

“China, Russia, and our other competitors must be thrilled, absolutely thrilled, that our new government is essentially declaring war on some of our own economic foundations to satisfy a craving for symbolic gesture. Wilfully throwing our own people out of work, reducing our domestic energy security, raising costs and prices for working families—all for no meaningful impact on global temperatures.”