Joe remembers how it used to get done--in WWII. The "Big Inch" pipeline was built to take oil from Texas to New Jersey so the Nazis couldn't sink oil tankers doing the same thing. It took about 2 years.
That pipeline was repurposed to transport natural gas after the war. It crosses part of my land. It takes approximately 8 years for that company to get approvals and permits to break ground to make any improvements, at least that was my experience the last time they did work on my land, and litigation seems to be getting worse.
Manchin made his deal (which the left reneged on) in order to get pipelines faster approvals, especially a project in WV. The WV project would provide a lot of natural gas to southeast markets for power generation but it remains in litigation now.
Biden and the left are fools. Even if you bring more product out of the ground, you can't move it without pipelines. And there is no point to building pipelines if there is no refinery to handle the product.