DAVID ASMAN: Democrats exploit gas-price pain while ignoring their own record

Fox News · David Asman · 2026-11-05 18:15 UTC

From the Keystone XL pipeline cancellation to carbon tax proposals, Democrats have a long history of policies that have driven gas prices higher.

The incredible irony of this election is that Democrats won largely on the issue of higher gas prices…when those same Democrats have done everything they can to raise gas prices when they’ve been in power.

The very first executive order that President Biden signed on his first day in office was cancelling the 1,200-mile-long Keystone XL pipeline, which would have brought 830,000 barrels of Canadian oil a day into U.S. refineries. The U.S. Gulf Coast refineries that the Keystone pipeline would have served are built and optimized to process Canada’s heavy, sour crude oils — like Alberta tar sands/bitumen — into high volumes of diesel and jet fuel. That is exactly the kind of fuel we’re in most need of right now.

And it wasn’t just President Biden. On February 24, 2015, President Barack Obama vetoed the Keystone XL Pipeline Approval Act passed by Congress. An attempt in the Senate to override Obama’s veto failed on March 4, 2015.

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