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President Biden's first actions would include killing off the Keystone pipeline and creating stringent regulations that began choking America's energy independence.
Keystone would have zero impact on today's gasoline supply issues.
edit - I'll go with "almost negligible"
Keystone XL, an expansion of an existing North American pipeline, would have carried 830,000 barrels of crude oil from Alberta, Canada, to Nebraska daily at its peak. At the time Mr. Biden halted its construction, the $8 billion expansion was only about 8% complete, according to Reuters.
Yet many experts agree that moving ahead with the pipeline wouldn't have prevented U.S. gas prices from climbing to a record high. Expanding the Keystone would have increased global oil production by less than 1%, an amount, they explained, is "almost negligible."
"I can see why people make that connection," Nemet said."But in terms of gasoline prices and global oil prices, it's just something it's better to just ignore because it would have no impact."
Could the Keystone XL pipeline help lower U.S. gas prices?
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