Former Energy Secretary Rick Perry criticizes Bxiden-Harris administration’s energy policies

Former Texas Governor Rick Perry criticizes the energy policies of the Biden-Harris administration and moves to block projects like the Keystone XL pipeline and the expansion of energy exploration in Alaska as undermining US energy security.

Perry, who served as energy secretary during the Trump administration and is currently a member of the board of directors of the pipeline company Energy Transfer, in an interview with FOX Business that the actions of the Biden-Harris administration risk reversing the progress that has been made on expansion. Energy security in America in recent decades.

“Of course, people my age miss the gas lines, the reliance on foreign oil, and we don’t want to go back to that,” Perry said. “We need to manage our energy resources in this country, and that’s what we’ve done over the last 40 years to work toward that.”

“If these administrations continue to act the way they’re doing – and I always say, listen, don’t look at the words of the administration, look at their actions – look at the first things the Biden administration does when they come into office: Stopping the [Keystone] XL pipe. “They clearly sent a message to Europe that they will not interfere with the Russian pipeline, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline,” said Perry.

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President Biden canceled the Keystone XL pipeline on the first day of his administration due to concerns about its impact on climate change and the environment. And in early 2021, he lifted sanctions on Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline – though he later reinstated them after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

“We had it, during the game The Trump administrationthe United States is self-sufficient, that’s a good thing for the country’s economy,” he explained. “It’s a good thing for the environment, because America’s hot natural gas is going to be the real driver of energy. out there. And obviously it has a big impact on the security of our country. “

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Perry went on to say that the US should invest in pipelines, like the ones that have been cancelled Keystone XL projectas a way to use resources to promote economic growth and create a more secure system in the US and around the world that is not dependent on rival countries.

“I think so pipeline construction in the United States it is a priority, and the reason it needs to come first is because we have been given this extraordinarily abundant resource. We must use them to create jobs, create wealth, but also improve the quality of life of people in areas that do not have access to this,” he said.

President Biden blocked the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office. – Pipes from the Keystone XL pipeline are piled up in a yard near Oyen, Alberta, Canada, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. (Photographer: Jason Franson/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Getty Images)

Perry explained that energy infrastructure helps the US not only with domestic energy security, but by providing a stable energy supply to America’s allies and developing countries without having to rely on Russia for oil and gas, or China to build new coal-fired power plants. .

“I think it’s very important for the world that they can trust the United States,” Perry said. He added that i The Biden-Harris administration efforts to freeze new liquefied natural gas export facilities could force countries in Europe, Africa and Asia to rely more on Russia or China to meet their energy needs.

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The Biden administration has blocked energy development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Photos by Edwin Remsburg/VW via Getty Images / Getty Images)

He noted that President Biden’s decision blocking expanded energy exploration in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, parts of which were slated for energy development, ultimately benefited Russia and China by taking an important energy resource off the table.

“These are people who make decisions who have probably never been to Alaska one day in their life, and they don’t care about the people of Alaska. It’s obvious that they don’t care about the people of Alaska because the jobs are being created by the development of that part of the country. [has] an incredibly powerful positive impact on Alaskans,” Perry said.

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“This is an anti-prosperity movement, it’s not an environmental movement. These people say, ‘We live in our nice, air-conditioned houses. We fly in jets. We’re going to enjoy the benefits of fossil fuels, but you people, no, we don’t think so because we want to feel good about ourselves and that we’re doing something. to save the environment,’ which is nonsense on the face of it,” said Perry.