Pipelines crisscrossing for energy Independence is bad.
High speed rail lines crisscrossing the land carrying foreign oil is good.
obama doesn’t have to worry about getting votes for his reelection. The decision isn’t tough at all. But his ideology, his OWN ideology, is what is holding this up. He does not want the US to be energy independent, nor does he give a damn about the ecology. What goes in his pocket stays in his pocket and that is ALL that he cares about.