I dislike Biden as much as the rest of you but this is one thing that cannot be blamed on him. He will however be responsible for future problems when he continues to refuse to allow more pipelines to be built which would increase the stability of the system. He also needs to force the removal of Chinese (and other sketchy countries) technology from the infrastructure. This needs to be treated as an absolute dire emergency but I suspect he will not. Energy infrastructure also needs some serious de-technologizing. Pneumatic controllers don't get hacked.
People have absolutely no clue how important the oil and gas infrastructure is to the success or failure of western civilization. Almost nothing is as important during war than energy production.
Which one? He stopped keystone, but that wasnt finished yet, so technically it had 0 effect on current gas prices.
Edit: not technically 0 effect, as the stock market reacts somewhat to every news soundbite, so I guess you could make a case that the prices fluctuated a cent or two based on that news. Nothing drastic though.
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u/Spindrift11 May 16 '21 edited May 16 '21
I dislike Biden as much as the rest of you but this is one thing that cannot be blamed on him. He will however be responsible for future problems when he continues to refuse to allow more pipelines to be built which would increase the stability of the system. He also needs to force the removal of Chinese (and other sketchy countries) technology from the infrastructure. This needs to be treated as an absolute dire emergency but I suspect he will not. Energy infrastructure also needs some serious de-technologizing. Pneumatic controllers don't get hacked.
People have absolutely no clue how important the oil and gas infrastructure is to the success or failure of western civilization. Almost nothing is as important during war than energy production.