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When President Obama put the kibosh on the Keystone Pipeline, environmentalist Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, said, ?The pipeline was rejected for all the right reasons. President ...
When President Obama put the kibosh on the Keystone Pipeline, environmentalist Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, said, ?The pipeline was rejected for all the right reasons. President Obama put the health and safety of the American people and our air, lands and water?our national interest?above the interests of the oil industry.? That was false when she said it, for Obama hadn?t really put our air, land, or water on a pedestal. Rather, he simply cowed down to environmental activists (like Beinecke) who wanted him to do so in a bid to appeal once more to the far left in his party, and to subsequently lock in more votes for November 2012. In so doing, he rejected a pipeline that not only would have created thousands of jobs, but would have brought an untold amount of crude to the Gulf of Mexico for America?s refiners to use to make gasoline and other fuels.
And as the fruit of this asinine decision is born out at the gas pump, where gas is already over $3.50 a gallon and headed to $5 by summer?s end, every would-be GOP Presidential candidate should be reminding voters: ?This is Obama?s hope and change?$5 a gallon gas must have been what he had in mind when said he was going to ?fundamentally change America.??
Let?s face it folks, the gas prices are a misery index in and of themselves. And Obama knows it, so he?s trying to spin high gas prices as proof the economy is recovering (as if high gas prices means our economy has corrected itself). If that?s true, maybe the high healthcare prices Obama used to justify the need for Obamacare were really just proof that our healthcare system was already righting its own ship?
As such, nothing makes him happier than to teach America a lesson: to let Americans get a taste of what other nation?s pay for their gasoline, and perhaps even to force us to trade our SUVs for little plastic cars that run off batteries. This is the message Santorum, Romney, and Gingrich need to be hammering home every time someone sticks a microphone in their faces.
Gasoline was approximately $1.84 a gallon when Obama entered office, its price has risen 83% on his watch. If he believes such an increase in per-gallon price is the answer, Americans deserve a new question. It?s time to drill here, drill now. And it?s time to build the pipeline.
Until then, Obama?s rejection of the pipeline is the gift that keeps on giving for would-be GOP presidential candidates who want to distinguish their energy policy from that of our current occupant in the White House. We desperately need a president who puts our energy needs above the delusional demands of the environmentalists.
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Watch them fumble it! They constantly snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. They are more focused on keeping the power-elite in power than to defeat the devil turd POTUS.
Both parties know full well how madly they have mucked everything up and they also know that, because of what has already been done, and not done, it is going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better. As a result, whether it be a pipeline or debt, GunWalker or Barry giving stealth and drone technology to Iran - BOTH parties are now TRYING to LOSE this election cycle in order to be able to spend the next term blaming the other party - and of course raising MONEY for the "campaigns". And Old Media loves it - because everyone within that cabal knows that the money people send to candidates, and now superpacs, will all come to it - no matter it's origin. Left, Right, no matter, Old Media ends up with the money when candidates pay for advertising.
Listen to George Washington! Turn away from political faction and the usurpatious nature ALL of them exhibit. Stop funding the media you so despise! Instead of trying to pay someone to speak for you, talk to your friends and neighbors - and those who you don't even know here on the internet.
Why the false BS? OBAMA is a FAILURE to an extent NEVER witnessed before in this country. Kruschev said it best(paraphrasing), Communism will take over in America and we will not have to fire a shot...yep just elect a foreigner to the whitehouse, have him DEEM everything he wants and AMERICA IS DONE...and with all the newly- graduated America haters the 'high' educators turn out, is it any wonder?
Why is it that nobody has done a comparison ? from an Environmentally point of view ? between bringing the Canadian Oil to Houston via the XL Pipeline and refining the oil there and bringing the Oil to Vancouver BC, freighting it in Tankers to China and refining it there?
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Watch them fumble it! They constantly snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. They are more focused on keeping the power-elite in power than to defeat the devil turd POTUS.
Meanwhile we have identified unimaginable reserves of natural gas in our country. Just imagine you little stone age drooling enviroturds, if we used our vast NG resources domestically we could drive the price of oil down so far, Canada would have to abandon the tar sands you revile so much because it costs too much to extract that "dirty" oil. Nah let's do it your way, after all Canada will ramp up production with prices hitting record highs. Tin pot thirteenth century wackos (Iran/OPEC) continue to dictate our future because of the enviroturd movement?. Just the facts mam?I hate stupid people!
Obama and the liberal progressive Democrats are a bigger threat to the security and future of America than all Islam combined. They must be overwhelmingly defeated in November. The new Republican president must be given a mandate to clean house.
I'm always amused by people who decry the "greed" of others while demanding that successful people pay for their every need so they can enjoy a life of sloth and envy.
Keystone's potential environmental effects have been studied for three years, and found to pose no greater risk than any other pipeline.
Republicans need to hammer this over and over. Obama is not trying to fix the economic problems of the country ? he is doing everything he possibly can to worsen them and hasten the collapse of the country into another Great Depression. When the populace is desperate enough as they would be in that circumstance the politicians will be able to sell them anything, even total capitulation of personal freedom if only they can make it stop.
No chance with the RNC geldings, they would have to be directly critical of Barry, and this would run off independents. You know independents don?t mind $3.50 to $5.00 gasoline?
More oil has been spilled with ships, trucks and trains than by pipeline, period. The Chinese are more than happy to make up the difference and in fact are dancing over their new Canadian LNG deals. A friend of mine is over there right now working on logistics and streamlining the management systems and has been there for a month already. This has only hurt America.
As for unsafe industry, you then MUST have been in the vanguard to prevent Obama's solar debacle from setting up shop in unique desert ecosystems and nutting them completely but I can't see such on your Intense Debate history. Gunrunner must have had you coming off the rails in regard to UNSAFE ventures too, no?
Both parties know full well how madly they have mucked everything up and they also know that, because of what has already been done, and not done, it is going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better. As a result, whether it be a pipeline or debt, GunWalker or Barry giving stealth and drone technology to Iran ? BOTH parties are now TRYING to LOSE this election cycle in order to be able to spend the next term blaming the other party ? and of course raising MONEY for the "campaigns". And Old Media loves it ? because everyone within that cabal knows that the money people send to candidates, and now superpacs, will all come to it ? no matter it's origin. Left, Right, no matter, Old Media ends up with the money when candidates pay for advertising.
Listen to George Washington! Turn away from political faction and the usurpatious nature ALL of them exhibit. Stop funding the media you so despise! Instead of trying to pay someone to speak for you, talk to your friends and neighbors ? and those who you don't even know here on the internet.
then you get Michigan, where a pipeline rupture released 840,000 gallons of tar-sands crude. Some 35 miles of the Kalamazoo River remain closed a year later.
Another pipeline transporting the same kind of crude suffered two leaks last spring in North Dakota and Kansas and had to be shut down.
For Obama and his cronies this is nothing but a game to them. They will act against our best interest like voting against the Keystone pipeline, knowing full well this combined with the unrest in the Middle East will naturally cause a sharp spike in oil prices. Then you watch, as election time approaches Obama will reverse course and support a new policy that is laying on the back burner all this time, in which will cause oil prices to fall immediately. He will come out smelling like a rose, especially after he issues special gas cards for the poor and all those unemployed people.
Look at Michigan, where a pipeline rupture released 840,000 gallons of crude. Some 35 miles of the Kalamazoo River remain closed a year later.
Another pipeline transporting the same kind of crude suffered two leaks last spring in North Dakota and Kansas and had to be shut down.
It isn't "fair" if we develop our own resources. Besides, we have the Jizyah to pay in order to facilitate our "safety" as Dhimmis. Heck, Egypt is now openly demanding that we pay that nation MORE, "or else"! The "peace treaty" with Israel is endangered if we do not pay more ? and that is beside the money we pay the Ummah for Dhimmitude "protection" in the form of oil purchases.
Folks need to WAKE UP and understand WHY we our energy dependent when there is no reason to be. It is all about being green, for sure. However, that has ZERO to do with global warming and saving the "sick" planet and it doesn;t even really have to do with money (aside from laundering it to the Mullahs and Clerics) ? it has to do with one thing more than anything else. Hamas' color is GREEN.
Our oil imports are focused on placating the Islamic Ummah. It is about trying to "BUY" peace according to Islamic Religious teaching.
AIG "bailout"? Yeah, just another jizyah payment. "Sharia compliant" products dug a hole and the American Taxpayer had to foot that bill too. Again.
If we start building pipelines through our most precious lands? pipelines with a history of leaks and pollution, a company with the same history? then we'll be only trading short term gain for long term environmental loss.
Awww?you seem cross? Hey maybe you ought to get your jammies on, and snuggle up with your Barry action figures, and dream of high seat on the politburo, and come back and play when have a better tone.
Get your head out of your Obama, this refusal to allow the pipeline was political payback to Warren Buffet whose railroad will transport the oil.
We already have thousands of pipelines. Failure rates a nearly nil.When a pipeline does fail, it is a huge news story, they are thatrare.The keystone fiasco was all about vote buying, the environmentalistlobby. Obama played them off the unions for now. He will still approvethe project, to placate the unions, but by then, it will be too late.The oil is sold.We have no business buying ANY foreign oil at all. we have provenreserves to last at least 100 years. So, ya have to ask yourself, whydo we buy what we already have? If your answer is that we don't want adrilling disaster or pipeline spill, then what kind ofenvironmentalist are you? A NIMBY one?Better there than here? We have the BEST technology. For extraction aswell as cleanup. And Foriegn oil comes from here anyway. The gulfspill was BP, a foreign co.So, why not keep the money and jobs here?
Obama made a $2 Billion Loan Guarantee to George Soros who would invest in Petrobra Off-shore oil drilling operations?.controlled by Hugo Chavez. So, why would they want competition to occur by allowing the Keystone Project!
I love this article because it is very fair and unbiased and definitely takes into account the other side that an oil spill from the pipeline could push America into a water crisis due to the Ogallala aquifer being damaged. But you know I don't think crude oil in the water supply is that big of a deal, cancer and other sicknesses that could lead to death due to ingesting large amounts of oil aren't that big of a deal. Just my two cents. Jeez you guys are brutal.
Is that so? Hmmmm. Spitting in the face of the middle class and poor is all about right wingers. Sure it is. How about $6 Billion given to Lord Baracks fat cat buddies for "alternative energy". How about the total lack of job growth created by Lord Barack. How about the Wookie taking million dollar vacations ? Let them eat cake.
You sir, are a joke. If you think the right has the exclusive on being wrong ? you aren't looking in the mirror. And you certainly aren't watching Lord Barack and his silly ass minions.
This is an election year. Dear leader only cares about reelection. He could care less about the health and well being of the economy and the country.
TransCanada Pipeline Corp isn't Enbridge. Wikipedia is biased left so don't take my word for anything, read it yourself. As for the Chinese, who said anything about environmentalism? They're the one's who desperately want what you appear not to and have shown up with a whopping great pile of your American currency to do business with.
Again you are using Enbridge's bad as an example of TransCanada Pipeline's future bad in spite of their own long history being available to peruse.
I really hate crony capitalism. I really support putting people back to work, and a reasonable enviorment policy.I wouldn't support cutting the Redwoods along the California coast and I wouldn't support a oil pipeline running through them.Do you really support having 20k people remaining on the dole instead of providing for their families and paying the taxes you adore so much?
The GOP as soon as a candidate is confirmed need to run 24 X 7 ads on one failed Obama record after another. Start with the fact that gasoline was $1.87 when he took office. Even some of the obamabots are uncomfortable with his record.
Well if the RINO's won't uncover this stuff, the rest of America will. We cannot afford another GOP John McCain campaign. We need hard hitting truth and exposure of what Obama is doing to America. We want to know his real birth place, his Indonesian childhood, his college years, his friends and document his agendas.
HOLY SHAT. I watched the governor of (I believe) Montana state that there was no way Odumazz could have possibly approve the pipeline. Not because of his typical motivation to "necessarily skyrocket" America's energy prices (thereby redistibuting wealth right out of America!), but truly because the governor of Nebraska had not permitted any part of the route to go through his state.
Why the false BS? OBAMA is a FAILURE to an extent NEVER witnessed before in this country. Kruschev said it best(paraphrasing), Communism will take over in America and we will not have to fire a shot?yep just elect a foreigner to the whitehouse, have him DEEM everything he wants and AMERICA IS DONE?and with all the newly- graduated America haters the 'high' educators turn out, is it any wonder?
You know, you really should get your Captain Planet DVD?s out and take a good nap, and dream of a world without petroleum products, you?ll feel better. So I take it, you don?t use any petroleum products?
The pipeline isn't under Canadian control within America's borders. That's just a fact. It has to meet American safety standards and practices which have been improved each year. Your own Water Quality Act hasn't been nearly so quick to respond. You want something to wet the bed over, try looking there first.
You do not know a thing about the oil industry of today. 'They' need no REASON any longer to raise prices. 'They' KNOW no one is watching the money pits-just like Bernie Madoff was unwatched by the FEDS- but this industry takes money from America by the hundreds of (only) millions a DAY and sends it to peeps who would rather kill us than supply us. And our producers are EXPORTING products from America to help prop up the delusion that there are shortages.
Biggest threat to America today? CRUDE OIL from outside the country. Let it be known: America has the resources to be self-sufficient in energy, but because a group of UN-Americans are all over this 'administration', nothing will be done and Bari Malik Shabzz can become the FIRST U.S. DICTATOR?his wet-dream.
Hey scotty?plenty of incentive already exists to insure water quality meets anystandards we desire?WE as a NATION have the ability to TURN OFF THEIR PIPE if we see fit?they want it on?they want us happy?typical obama/autocrat crap that you little people need the protection of said blessed messiah.
The point of the question is the US takes great measures to try an limit environmental impacts while other countries, but not all foreign countries, usually do not have the same strict measures.
Why is it that nobody has done a comparison ? from an Environmentally point of view ? between bringing the Canadian Oil to Houston via the XL Pipeline and refining the oil there and bringing the Oil to Vancouver BC, freighting it in Tankers to China and refining it there?
I've been in the pipeline business for the past 30+ years and I can assure you that pipelines are almost infinitely safer than transporting by rail, truck or by ship. The TransCanada pipeline has had exactly 3 "leaks" in the past 40 years and all three of them were caused by morons like you sabotaging them to "make a point."
You are correct Missy. Our president chooses to let them take over the straights and block the oil, because it helps his plan to destroy our nation.
Do you have any idea what kind of infrastructure we already have underground? Do you not want to drive to work this morning? Do you not want farmers to plow their fields this Spring? Do you not want our aircraft to fly? Do you want to go back to heavier cars without plastic components? Do you just want hide your head in a hole?
There's a REASON North Dakota has a 3.9% unemployment rate while the rest of the nation struggles with 9% (or higher). OIL production! Wake up and smell the roses people.
The Ogalala aquifer is in NO DANGER WHATSOEVER from a POTENTIAL oil spill! That's a red herring?just like EVERYTHING the environuts claim.
The XL pipeline decision by Obama would seem irrational to most normal people. However, understand that two thirds of people still get most of their news from very liberal sources where XL has gotten very little if any honest airplay. Please don?t sit back and let the liberal media control the discussion. Make sure all your friends and family know about and how Obama?s horrible decisions are causing a lot of misery in their pocket book and lives.
recent examples of pipeline spills in Michigan, where a pipeline rupture released 840,000 gallons of tar-sands crude. Some 35 miles of the Kalamazoo River remain closed a year later. Another pipeline transporting the same kind of crude suffered two leaks last spring in North Dakota and Kansas and had to be shut down.
I'm sorry but you're so dumb it's just really hard to keep from laughing at your unparalleled stupidity, you make Olbermann and Schultz look like geniuses by comparison!
The only part of the pipe line that we can influence is the part that is inside the US borders. Once it crosses in to the US it will become subject to our codes for the construction of the pipe line, which will require it to be inspected as it is constructed.
Heck even koch subsidiary companies have been fined millions for dozens of spills. I would have never heard about that if I didn't look it up.
I?m telling Owlgore. You do realize you?re killing Gaia with that attitude. What if everybody thought like that? You should be ashamed of yourself. Imagine if every liberal, 18-22% of the population, refused to use any petroleum products. You could all hold hands in the 57th state and chant, use body heat to keep warm, there?d be no cars, no synthetic clothing, everyone could run around in loin cloths (we want this on Pay-Per-View) mating, of course there?d no super lube, imagine. You had better get right with the Goreacle, the planet?s dying.
Where's the law that presidents aren't allowed to take vacations? You're acting like presidents aren't plugged in we're they're not in the white house. You my friend suffer from Obama Derangement Syndrome.
Michigan will go and support Rick Santorum. Why? Romney is trying to portraye that he lived for a "long time" in Michigan and NOW supports the car industry??.which is didn't. He is trying to "buy" the election while Santorum is running on a "boot string" thereby showing that he wants its more. Conservatives in Michigan see this and do not want to take another chance on having another Obama because Romney got elected in a pure liberal, whack-o state of Massachusetts and had to compromise any conservative values to get elected or did he have any conservative values? We are not going to take this chance. To much at stake!
Michigan will go and support Rick Santorum. Why? Romney is trying to portraye that he lived for a "long time" in Michigan and NOW supports the car industry??.which is didn't. He is trying to "buy" the election while Santorum is running on a "boot string" thereby showing that he wants its more. Conservatives in Michigan see this and do not want to take another chance on having another Obama because Romney got elected in a pure liberal, whack-o state of Massachusetts and had to compromise any conservative values to get elected or did he have any conservative values? We are not going to take this chance. To much at stake!
No, idiot. By people LIKE you?or folks that do what you probably believe is "thinking" like you. Every one of those leaks you mentioned have been cleaned up with NO permanent "environmental damage"?much like Prince William Sound was a couple of years after the Exxon Valdez event. By the way, your "same kind of crude" dig didn't pass unnoticed. Crude oil is crude oil, whether it's tar sands oil or high gravity stuff known as "sweet" crude that's low in sulfur. Almost invariably, "leaks" are caused by some human intervention?usually some idiot digging into a clearly-marked, underground pipeline which, even if it doesn't puncture the pipe, scrapes off the protective coating and causes corrosion leaks.
Here we go again. You want prior approval for a company which ignored all reason the first time around? Amazing. Oh, and by the way, they still have not submitted their new route to the State of Nebraska for its approval.
i guess you'd rather americans needing a job stave to death? the amount of time our govt takes to get anything done means we would wait forever for an alternative plan to make the pipeline safer?while we continue to funnel money to our enemies in the middle east. yes thats worth waiting for isn't it?
Spot on. What's better? Crude coming from friendly Canada down a pipeline, of which exists many already with very little enviornmental impact, versus hundreds or thousands of Chinese tankers crossing the Pacific Ocean every year?
human beings are so self important. eventually human will become extinct either through our own fault of by causes we can't control. we can get rid of all regulations that prevent pollution or over population and it still might not matter. if we nuc the planet or just suck it dry, eventually nature will re-take what we destroyed. maybe new kinds of life will emerge? why are human beings so afraid of evolution? evolution will happen with or without our consent.
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