Posted on 11/06/2011 3:34:00 PM PST by Kolath
For practically any other president, this would be a no-brainer. America needs jobs and a reliable source of oil, both of which the Keystone Pipeline will provide. The pipeline will link Alberta’s vast Athabasca Oil Sands to American oil refineries in the nation’s heartland and, eventually, the gulf coast. If allowed to go forward, an additional half million barrels per day will flow into the country via pipeline from Canada. That’s a half million barrels per day we won’t need to purchase from volatile and often hostile regimes in the rest of the world who most certainly don’t have America’s best interests in mind. Obama should be jumping at the chance to push this project forward, right? Er....wrong.
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But the enviro-wackos who pull Barry's strings (and fund his bank account) say "No!"... so "No" it will be.
well if our leaders in Congress won’t bring this up maybe our candidates will. Herman? go for it. This one is a slam dunk.
How is the p/l Zer0’s call?
The administration is in a no-win position on this.
If they approve it, they p**s off the liberal/enviro-radicals, who want more windmills and ocean wave power and all that.
If they turn it down, the liberals are happy, but conservatives and common-sense thinking moderate/independent voters will see it as caving in to the liberals, and a decision which doesn’t make common sense.
Can’t wait to see which way Obama goes on this one. Get the popcorn.
So why not build a refinery up near the Canada border to process this oil rather than piping it all across the country?
How is the p/l Zer0’s call?
Administration has the the ultimate say since this pipeline crosses international boundaries.
right ... and there is virtually zero political risk in bringing it up. It’s a freebie for cowards like Boehner.
It does put the screws to Chavez. Obozo wouldn’t want to hurt his buddy.
Thanks for the answer to the question I was wondering about to.
Here is my solution. American states start building the pipeline and Canada do the same. By the time we need to connect them at the border butthead will be out of office.
Then we can connect them and start making some money from our resources/technologies.
We should cut spending but the #1 thing that will help us pull out of the hole we are in is growth. Lets get us working for us again at a profit!
Congress ought’a pass a law.
bump.
Here is my solution. American states start building the pipeline and Canada do the same. By the time we need to connect them at the border butthead will be out of office.
Great idea! I’ve been saying they should hold tight until January of 2013 and start building, but I like your idea better.
My concern is that this oil will not end up staying in the US. (Just like much of the Alaska pipeline oil ends up going to Japan and the Orient.) Once they pump it all the way down to refineries along the coast, it will go right on ships, and off it goes overseas. If it were actually for use in the US, they could build a refinery on the Canadian border a lot easier that building that immense long pipeline. I don't think we're being told the whole story.
Rio,
Refineries cost 10s of billions $ to build while capacity upgrades are in the single billion $.
Once refined, most liquid fuel petroleum products go back into a pipeline system for distribution anyway. Trucking everything is cost prohibitive (like ethanol, corrodes pipelines).
So if someone did build a far US or Canadian northern refinery closer to the source of crude oil, it would still need a pipeline system to distribute the fuel.
holyscroller,
who is telling you that much of Alaskan produced oil ends up overseas? they are very poorly informed, or just making it up.
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