Television host Mike Rowe on Wednesday responded to an interview with displaced oil workers who slammed President Joe Biden’s recent executive order, calling it a “heartbreaker” in the way skilled workers are treated “in such a high way” .
The former host of ‘Dirty Jobs’ explained during an appearance on ‘Fox & Friends’ that ‘everyone’ is affected by fundamental imbalances in the oil and gas industry. He added that the consequences would be far greater than just the 11,000 jobs lost for Keystone Pipeline, as the consequences would ‘ripple to the coast’.
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‘Just wait until we really do [the oil and gas industry] the enemy and disconnect us so completely from that part of our economy that we really see the impact of it, “Rowe said. ‘Then you will have 330 million people involved in this conservation.’
Rowe hosts ‘Six Degrees with Mike Rowe’ on the streaming service Discovery +.
Biden recently signed new executive orders to halt new leases owned by the oil and gas industry on federal land and eliminate subsidies for oil and other fossil fuels. In addition, its orders also commit the U.S. to preserve 30 percent or more of federal land by 2030.
Critics of Biden’s recent executive actions, including many members of the GOP, such as former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and the Republican Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw, argues that the government’s efforts to combat climate change are killing American jobs and providing strategic benefits to foreign governments.
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In the past, President Biden has reversed his stance on hydraulic fracturing and the oil industry. During the presidential debate on October 22, 2020, Biden said he would “transition out of the industry” when pushed by Donald Trump.
Less than a week later, Biden clarified his position, saying that “the oil industry is not going to disappear, and the oil industry itself, if you notice what he is doing, is branching out beyond oil.”