On Tuesday, Senator Joe Manchin called on President Joe Biden to restore the Keystone XL pipeline, following Biden’s announcement of a plan to release millions of barrels of oil from the nation’s reserves to combat rising gas prices.

“I continue to call on President Biden to responsibly increase energy production here at home and to reverse course to allow the Keystone XL pipeline to be built which would have provided our country with up to 900,000 barrels of oil per day from Canada, one of our closest allies,” said Manchin in a statement.

“To be clear, this is about American energy independence and the fact that hard working Americans should not depend on foreign actors, like OPEC+, for our energy security and instead focus on the real challenges facing our country’s future,” he continued, referring to the group of major oil-producing countries.