text: Approve the Keystone XL pipeline and streamline energy infrastructure projects. The next Administration's easiest decision may be to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. Keystone XL is environmentally responsible, will not contribute significantly to climate change, will boost the economy, will increase the supply of oil to America's Gulf Coast refineries, and will provide much needed energy infrastructure. Further, the recent growth in domestic oil and gas productionsometimes in nontraditional areas, such as North Dakotahas resulted in transportation delays. Streamlining the environmental review and permitting processes for new pipelines and grid investments is a welcome step for managing new supplies. However, taxpayers should not subsidize those investments, and Congress should eliminate any federally imposed cost-socialization requirements through which regulatory agencies support expensive, uneconomic projects by spreading the costs to citizens who derive little, if any, benefit from those projects. Additionally, Congress should be mindful of protecting private property rights and respect the state authority to control local and regional needs.