This issue is a good bit more complicated than a president that shut down a pipeline. In reality the oil and Natural Gas extracted, here domestically, pale in comparison to the other OPEC nations. Most of our oil comes from the middle east. The US has tried for decades to usurp Venezuelas government so we could gain unilateral control of one of the largest oil reserves in the world. All attempts thus far have, thankfully, failed. Opec agreed to cut production to deal with their own crisis due to Covid 19. Global demand for fossil fuels is starting to drop. Biden, taking a minor stand against Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP, Texaco are really token expressions more or less. They make their money regardless and he gets to say he did this or that to combat climate change. When in reality none of that really made much of an impact because the miitary, & large corporations such as power and manufacturing are the biggest polluters in the country. They have largely went along as business as usual minus the covid impact. Their collective energy policies are wasteful and we wind up picking up the tab. People love to bitch, moan, gripe, and complain about the president regarless of who it is. The catch the blame whether they deserve it or not. The simple facts are, pipelines close all the time for various reasons. Some due to natural disaster. Some for scheduled maintenance and others for safty or political reasons. The latter is the most volitile in our society because it is often met with punitive spikes in crude prices that otherwise would have never rose to that extent. It is capitalism at its finest. Nothing has come close to the George Bush era of gas prices where I was paying close to 5 dollars a gallon for regular unleaded in NC. Cali was much higher. As far as shipping concerns go, most of the isues can be traced back to California where they shut down the ports for covid then reopened them for only 8 hours and all the trucks have to be 2011 or newer to operate there. Truckers are very upset and many owner-operators cannot afford a new truck to meet cali's demands and the warehouses cannot move enough stock to keep up with demand because there are not enough trucks available. This means there is about 60 or so freighters sitting in the pacific ocean waiting to get to port. This is creating a heafty backlog of goods. My opinion is the president should have ordered the ports on the east coast to open to pacific vessels and route them through the Panama Canal. As is estimated right now, it will be late 2023 to 2024 to get all the goods off those freighter. Most states on the east coast that have ports are not as restricted as cali is. So that would speed things up and lower the inflation a bit. Its not a cure-all but its a damn good start to alleviate the strain on our supply chain.

I'd like to LOL at the comments, but they've given me a headache.