I agree I don’t want the coup but maybe if ICE pisses off the military enough, they won’t coup a Democrat if they ever get voted back in

You’re not wrong. The US could do that. But in the US there is no forcing function to make the companies subsidize the oil locally and they would rather make more profit by selling oil at the market price.

To be fair he also had Joe Manchin threatening to block it. Though what I don’t understand is why they didn’t pressure him to fall in line. (Insert controlled opposition theory here)

Unfortunately, his voting block is cross generational, though there is a bit of an older skew

Yeah some more news did a good segment on him, explaining how he was always pretty crappy: https://youtu.be/28M_zkoAGQM