Manchin Tries to Sell Permitting Bill to Lefties at Pittsburgh Event
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, from West Virginia, made a stop at the Global Clean Energy Action Forum (a confab of global warming wackos) on Friday to make a pitch for support of his “save Mountain Valley Pipeline” bill without actually mentioning MVP. At the start of his talk, Manchin was heckled by four wackadoodle protesters who were escorted out by security. Manchin then talked about his bill and how it will streamline the process for renewable energy projects. No mention of fossil fuel projects. Love the one you’re with, right?
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The term “woke” is thrown around a lot these days. The left introduces race and alleged racism wherever it can as a bludgeon to justify stripping away more of your Constitutional freedoms. Woke means everything and everyone is racist. The Biden Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just launched a new “Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights” (“woke office”) that will try to paint any new pipeline, any new compressor station, any new fossil energy infrastructure project of any kind as racist and therefore should not get built.
Yesterday evening, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (from West Virginia) finally released a draft bill that purportedly streamlines the permitting process for oil and gas pipelines, among other things. The bill, called the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2022, also clears away the remaining roadblocks to complete the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline that travels through WV and into Virginia. MVP is 94% done and in the ground, yet anti-fossil fuel wackos keep blocking its completion with frivolous lawsuits and colluding federal judges. Manchin wants to blast through it and get it done, to his credit.
It appears that Sen. Joe Manchin’s “save MVP bill” (otherwise known as the permitting reform bill) is crashing and burning. No official language or text of the bill has been released. Yet. Why is that? Manchin extracted a promise from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that a bill to finish up Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) and streamline permitting for future pipeline projects would be brought to a vote and passed–IF old Joe voted in favor of the horrible Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a bill (now law) that damages the fossil fuel industry. Joe got rolled. He voted to pass the IRA, and now more than one-third of House Democrats and at least one Senate Democrat (crazy Bernie Sanders) have pledged to vote against Manchin’s bill, leaving him high and dry with nothing to show for his sellout on IRA. So Manchin turned to Republicans to save his tattered reputation–and they aren’t having it. Republicans refuse to reward Manchin’s sellout. Manchin calls it “revenge politics.” We call it eating the excrement sandwich you prepared for yourself, Joe.
Never believe that the government can do anything quickly–except destroy an economy. Nearly a year ago, President Biden signed into law the so-called Infrastructure bill, some $1.2 trillion in pork barrel spending, passed with the help of turncoat Republicans (see 
While mainstream media is trying to convince you that the Democrats have a real chance of holding onto the House and Senate in the November election, don’t believe it. It’s not true. What you can expect to see and hear in news reports in the coming weeks are stories about “what if” the Republicans do win back majorities in both chambers–because they can’t afford to be so obviously wrong when there’s a Republican landslide. Expect to see stories asking, What will happen next? What about how a Republican sweep impacts the recently passed (misnamed) Infrastructure Reduction Act? And how does Republican control impact the so-called Infrastructure bill passed last year? S&P Global tackles those questions, saying Republicans have options to slow down, counter, and mute those idiotic bills. We pray to God it happens.
In June, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about Germany buying LNG from Canada (see 
Since the beginning of Joe Manchin’s so-called “side deal” to vote on a bill that will reform the permitting process for infrastructure projects including the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), Republicans in the Senate (and House) have called on Manchin and Chuck Schumer to release actual language of the bill that will be voted on. You know, release it at least a week or two before it gets voted on, instead of two hours before (which is the Democrats’ typical routine). So far, NOTHING from Manchin and Schumer. So on Monday, Manchin’s fellow U.S. Senator from West Virginia, Senator Shelley Moore Capito, introduced her own version of a permitting reform bill. The bill has the support of 45 Republican Senators so far (38 of them co-sponsored).
Last December, Virginia’s newly-elected governor, Glenn Youngkin, said that as soon as he took office, he would use his executive power to withdraw Virginia from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (see 
On Friday, Paul Cicio, CEO of Industrial Energy Consumers of America (IECA), representing America’s largest manufacturing companies, sent a letter to Congress making the case that federal agencies (FERC and NERC) should have the responsibility to secure reliable and affordable access to natural gas, mainly through dramatic growth in pipeline infrastructure. The letter says FERC should be required to address any reliability concerns by expediting pipeline permits and promoting (not restricting) construction–potentially by asking for Presidential emergency powers!
A new Bank of America Global Research report calls the so-called Biden Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) the most important, and largest, federal green energy and climate package in U.S. history. It also says rather than reduce inflation, the IRA will increase inflation because government spending will increase, regulations will restrict supply chains, and the result is that prices, especially for energy, will soar. The IRA is another sterling example of why the free market (capitalism) is preferred over government command-and-control (Communistic) intervention.