Beat me to it. And a h/t for the article on it the other day.
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Amen brotherā¦
Itās actually New Brunswick, not Nova Scotia, but as a Canadian, I would rather see the oil refined in Canada. The refined products can still be exported to the US by existing pipelines in the East or by ship, as well as sent anywhere in the world by sea.
But if the price goes below $70/bbl, any expansion of the Tar Sands (and probably any pipelines) will be DOA until prices rise back near $100.
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āThe world needs grave diggers too.ā - Generic GOP Idiot
Isnāt it up to the State Department to make the call for the Keystone XL? What difference does the vote in the Senate make?
Gawd itās going to be a miserable next 2 years with the lunatics running congress. Fucking depressing.
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IMO, the Keystone pipeline was always a great bargaining chip and I suspect the administration has known that all along.
As long as Obama bargains for actual passed legislation and not āpromisesā.
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No. Heās a longtime family friend. Heās got grandkids and shit and heās kind of over the DC cesspool.
He would have curb stomped the Pig Lady.
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Jonathan Chait has a good piece on this idea. Mildly dispiriting but good.
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How fucking hard is it for Dimocraps to run a fucking ad with a wind turbine spinning gracefully through the sky transposed against the filthy digging and destruction of tar sand extraction? Cut to one. Cut to the other. Cut back to the turbine. Cut back to the filthy extraction. Fuck, throw in a baby deer and a little kid just for added effect.
Thatās SO FUCKING EASY! It took me like 15 seconds to come up with that idea and totally own the debate.
15 motherfucking measly seconds.
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Iād do it too.
Thereās already pipelines all over the place. Keystone XL really doesnāt mean shit in the grand scheme of things. But if they want it so very bad, Iād make them pay dearly for it.
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At least I had the right end of the country!
I read a story about it the other day, but I couldnāt find the link to it, and my aging memory failed me yet again.
Oil prices are expected to drop furtherāprobably below that $70 bbl marker----so thatās another reason not to build Keystone.
āAnd Iām not going to be a part of it anymore. Iām through. Thatās just how strongly I feel.ā
Portrait of courage right there. Wait until after the election in which you are retiring. Too bad he didnāt feel this strongly about beating back against the oil companies prior to his retirement.
Job killing pipelineā¦loss of tanker trucking jobs, loss of rail tanker jobs.
Eminent domain whereby the U.S. government seizes private land from U.S. citizens & gives it to a corporation from a foreign government.
If the oil is for U.S. consumption, then why not put that in writing in the form of legislation?
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It didnāt start and doesnāt stop with Keystone, Senator Harkin. Most every GOP seat is yet another undertaker for the next generation. A corporate dominated agenda barreling us toward Plutocracy is the reaper.