Sorry, pet peeve: there is no "democrat" party. I've spent a lifetime watching the right try to rename the other party for political benefit, I won't let it go by un-noted.

Your definition of extremist seems very fixed to your own beliefs. The elements of the various Democratic bills are mostly quite popular with the nation as a whole. In a representative democracy, it seems like whether or not someone or some proposal is outside the mainstream should depend on the national mood.

Shutting down pipelines would have been unthinkable when Biden was a lad, but advances in climate science and technology mean oil should be going the way of coal (that is, going away). The rest of the world is going green, we should be too, even if only because that's where the money is going to be. We should be leaders in the technology the world actually wants, rather than working so hard to making sure Exxon's stock price stays up.

Besides, did he actually close any pipelines? I know Keystone XL is on hold, but it isn't built yet so that's not having any effect on anything.