President Trump and his State Department have given full support to the Keystone XL pipeline that would enter the country from Canada and deliver North American oil to Gulf Coast refineries.

The two Trump appointees to the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, ruled with the majority of justices to end the ridiculous keep-it-in-the-ground campaign against pipelines in Appalachia.

President Trump’s Department of Energy has prioritized grid reliability and security. In 2017 the department issued a landmark report highlighting the immense importance of reliable, baseload electricity sources and the risks of a plunge toward intermittent energy.

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Joe Biden has a long and undistinguished record on energy and economic policy. Four years removed from his post under Barack Obama, Biden is not expected to be a policy leader, but rather a vessel of the Democratic Party’s agenda. Though Biden built a blue-collar brand during his long career on Capitol Hill, he has chosen to sell out the American people to secure the support of left-wing environmentalists. The policies he has adopted in his run for a placeholder presidency cut hard against the values of working America.

Less a standard-bearer than a front man, Biden’s policies are likely to be generated by the collection of politicians and activists he’s surrounded himself with. A Biden election victory would end the American energy boom end. It would cost the country hundreds of thousands of jobs. It would drive up the cost of electricity and of transportation for all Americans. And it would put us on the road to economic decline.

Among the most concerning aspects of Biden’s 2020 platform are his desire for the U.S. to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement, his support for an energy-draining Green New Deal, and his plan to put the brakes on American oil and gas development. These policies are popular among the Democratic Party activists that have embraced Biden, but they are losers with and for the American people.

Biden’s energy platform would put bureaucrats in charge, drive up energy costs for Americans, and hand power back to hostile regimes abroad.

Joe Biden would re-commit the U.S. to the Paris Climate Agreement. Under Biden’s plan, the U.S. would toe the globalist energy line, restricting our industrial output as China continues to expand. Biden proudly touts that he worked with the Chinese government during his stint as VP to get the Paris Agreement to the finish line. While Biden and Obama’s Paris commitment was to burden the U.S. with the failed Clean Power Plan, they agreed to allow the Chinese to continue increasing their emissions for another decade. China, it should be noted, already emits twice as much as the United States. Jumping back into the Paris Agreement means handing the reins of global industry to China.