After President Biden gave an inauguration speech filled with platitudes about unity, he signed a series of executive orders that ran against that sentiment. Among them was an executive order yanking the permit from the Keystone XL pipeline.

The Keystone XL pipeline would take oil from the tar sands in Alberta, Canada, to refineries on the Gulf Coast. The United States would acquire a source of oil from a friendly country and not from the volatile Middle East. Canada would get lots of money. America’s hard-won energy independence would be secured. The pipeline also created a lot of union, blue-collar jobs, the very sort Biden pretended to support.