Laid-off Pipeline Worker Expresses Frustration Over Joe Biden’s Job-Killing Energy Agenda

Jason Jernigan, a third-generation oil and gas worker, told Fox News he doesn’t know how he’s going to make a living after being laid off due to President Joe Biden’s radical energy agenda.

“I spent my whole life learning this craft and this skill and it’s not as easy as somebody might think or people might think to just start all over at 45 years old,” Jernigan, with Local 798, said. “I guess I could possibly get a job as a greeter at Walmart, I don’t know.” 

On his first day in office, President Biden signed an executive order to revoke the permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline — a project that was projected to employ more than 11,000 Americans this year.

Jernigan was supposed to start working on the Keystone next month, but Joe Biden’s job-killing policies have left him stranded with no idea as to what comes next.

“I’ve been pipelining for 21 years. This is all I know to do,” he said. “The recent administration has taken my livelihood from me and expecting me to get a job somewhere else. I’ve got my whole life invested in this.”

Meanwhile, members of the Biden administration have sent the message to oil and gas workers whose lives have been impacted by President Biden’s policies to simply get another job making solar panels.

But Jernigan says it’s not that easy.

“First of all, I haven’t been offered a job in the solar panels industry and I haven’t been sent an application or a phone number or anything,” Jernigan said. “I don’t know if I have to do the work, the groundwork and everything it takes to get there.”

“And secondly, I’ve done the research, if I went to work for the solar panel right now, I would be taking a $35-an-hour pay cut and lose my benefits and retirement,” he continued.

Bottom line: Joe Biden’s radical policies are hurting thousands of Americans and sending the message to oil and gas workers across the country that they’re not a priority for his administration.