{"id":128,"date":"2026-03-25T13:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/istheswampdrainedyet.com\/?p=128"},"modified":"2026-03-25T13:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:26:17","slug":"keystone-xl-talking-point-refuted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/istheswampdrainedyet.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/keystone-xl-talking-point-refuted\/","title":{"rendered":"Keystone XL talking point refuted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Supporters of Swamp Guy like to yap about how Yew Dimmycrat Varmints Closed the Keystone Pipeline!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They mean Keystone XL, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Strait of Hormuz normally carries about 20 million barrels of oil per day, when Iran isn&#8217;t blockading it. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/about\/oil-security-and-emergency-response\/strait-of-hormuz\">https:\/\/www.iea.org\/about\/oil-security-and-emergency-response\/strait-of-hormuz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keystone XL would have carried 830,000 barrels of oil per day. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/crs_external_products\/R\/PDF\/R43787\/R43787.8.pdf\">https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/crs_external_products\/R\/PDF\/R43787\/R43787.8.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So Keystone XL would have replaced about four percent of the capacity of the Strait of Hormuz. Yeah, that&#8217;ll put a dent in the price of gas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supporters of Swamp Guy like to yap about how Yew Dimmycrat Varmints Closed the Keystone Pipeline! They mean Keystone XL, of course. The Strait of Hormuz normally carries about 20 million barrels of oil per day, when Iran isn&#8217;t blockading it. Source: https:\/\/www.iea.org\/about\/oil-security-and-emergency-response\/strait-of-hormuz Keystone XL would have carried 830,000 barrels of oil per day. Source: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,21],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lies","tag-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/istheswampdrainedyet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/istheswampdrainedyet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/istheswampdrainedyet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/istheswampdrainedyet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/istheswampdrainedyet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/istheswampdrainedyet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/istheswampdrainedyet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/istheswampdrainedyet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/istheswampdrainedyet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/istheswampdrainedyet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}