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Obama says he's added pipeline 'to encircle Earth and then some'
The Hill ^ | 3/22/12 | Andrew Restuccia and Amie Parnes

Posted on 03/22/2012 11:00:08 AM PDT by Nachum

As gasoline prices continue to rise, President Obama on Thursday pushed back on attacks from Republicans that he is blocking the Keystone XL oil pipeline and is against drilling, arguing his administration has added enough new oil-and-gas pipelines to "encircle the Earth and then some."

Obama highlighted his support for the southern leg of the controversial Keystone pipeline, which would carry oil from Cushing, Okla., to refineries on the Gulf Coast.

Appearing before a backdrop of oil pipelines in Cushing, Obama said he was making construction a priority through an executive order issued Thursday that instructs federal agencies to expedite their review of the southern portion of the pipeline.

“Today, I’m directing my administration to cut through the red tape, break through the bureaucratic hurdles and make the project a priority,” said Obama, who earlier this year rejected a GOP bid to force construction on the full pipeline, which would stretch from Alberta to the Gulf Coast.

Republicans quickly dismissed the speech and the executive order as a public relations stunt.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: earth; encircle; keystonepipeline; obama; obamalies; obamaliesonkeystone; pipeline
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To: Nachum
I think all the hard presidenting he's been doing has left poor BO a bit confused about the types of pipes.

Crack Pipe -

- Hash Pipe

Oil Pipe -

41 posted on 03/22/2012 11:51:53 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: Nachum

Dictator Baby-Doc Barack is proving himself to be a blithering idiot.

Obama says what he thinks his audience wants to be true, and then expects us to believe his lie.


42 posted on 03/22/2012 11:58:04 AM PDT by Graewoulf (( obama"care" violates the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND is illegal by the U.S. Constitution.))
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To: Nachum

I am so sick of this lying SOS.


43 posted on 03/22/2012 11:58:40 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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To: Miss Behave

It’s 50 feet. So he’s more than blowing this all out of perportion.

“Oil pipelines are built all over the nation every day without his approval,... don’t need his approval,.. don’t require his approval,... and that he doesn’t even have jurisdiction over whether they are built, or not? ..Nope, they don’t, do they?

The two key words are “support” and “approval,” and Enemy of Oil #1 and the mainstream media have cleverly substituted the word “approval” for the word “support.”

He is traveling to Cushing, Oklahoma to give his so called support, but with the mainstream media’s help, he is giving the impression that he is giving the Southern portion of the pipeline his “approval,” when he has no authority over it whatsoever.

The only approval he has the authority to give is the approval he refuses to give, and that is for the 50 feet that extends to the Canadian border.....(which he has now given...50 feet!)

So when you hear stories about his “approving” some portion or another of the pipeline, it is nothing more than a publicity stunt to fool people into thinking he is “approving” the pipeline, bit by bit.

http://waznmentobe.com/politics/obama-only-has-authority-to-approve-the-50-feet-of-oil-pipeline-between-here-canada-while-he-pretends-to-approve-the-southern-portion.html


44 posted on 03/22/2012 12:06:07 PM PDT by caww
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To: Nachum

When one possesses no moral compass, like Obama, then anything they say is not a lie, by their line of reasoning as evidenced by Obama saying this, just like Gore said about inventing the internet, just like Piglosi who said that more unemployment funding was needed in order to create more jobs, and just like Slick Willie himself, who said he did not have sex with that woman, Ms Lewinsky.


45 posted on 03/22/2012 12:08:42 PM PDT by OB1kNOb (The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty. - Prov 22:3)
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To: caww
I'm aware of all of that, caww.

What I said was a joke: That Obama has "laid more pipe" than Clinton, but that in hOmObama's case...

it's dirty-plumbing pipes...

which in plumber's terms means the pooh pooh pipes. The dirty water pipes--the outflow toilet pipes.

hOmObama lays pooh pipes. Fudge packer? Butt pirate? Poop Chute Loot? Shall I stop? ;-)

46 posted on 03/22/2012 12:22:17 PM PDT by Miss Behave (All ways, always.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

The Lyin’ King....


47 posted on 03/22/2012 12:29:56 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Nachum

It should be easy to prove or disprove these claims, one would think.


48 posted on 03/22/2012 12:33:49 PM PDT by GSWarrior (Click HERE to read entire tagline.)
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To: Nachum
Let's see

Obama denies any blame for the SOLYNDRA debacle which used government funds but takes credit for laying pipelines for which used no tax dollars....

And the obedient lapdog media remains silent.....

49 posted on 03/22/2012 12:35:41 PM PDT by RedMonqey (A politician's integrity is usually only as strong as his poll numbers.)
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To: OB1kNOb

In the interest of fairness, I feel compelled to point out that Gore did not claim to have “invented” the internet per se. He took credit for pushing legislation through that enabled the internet to be developed.....or something like that.


50 posted on 03/22/2012 12:38:55 PM PDT by GSWarrior (Click HERE to read entire tagline.)
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To: Nachum

Will all 58 states benefit?


51 posted on 03/22/2012 12:44:32 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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To: Terry Mross

You hit the nail on the head.


52 posted on 03/22/2012 12:44:55 PM PDT by the lastbestlady (I now believe that we have two lives; the life we learn with and the life we live with after that.)
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To: tcrlaf
From what I have heard and I do not know if it is entirely true, but there is some gigantic aquifer in the North that they would have to drill either under or around to complete the Keystone pipeline. Apparently this has all the hippies and tree huggers up in arms and they are the ones who control the energy agendas of this administration. This may be at least one reason why he is only approving it halfway.
53 posted on 03/22/2012 12:46:29 PM PDT by 3rdcoastislander (Northern Mexico......aka South Texas.....)
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To: GSWarrior
In the interest of fairness, I feel compelled to point out that Gore did not claim to have “invented” the internet per se. He took credit for pushing legislation through that enabled the internet to be developed.....or something like that.

"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." - http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

54 posted on 03/22/2012 12:46:47 PM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
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To: Nachum

Sorry. I couldn’t resist.


55 posted on 03/22/2012 12:58:17 PM PDT by whitedog57
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To: 3rdcoastislander
From what I have heard and I do not know if it is entirely true, but there is some gigantic aquifer in the North that they would have to drill either under or around to complete the Keystone pipeline. Apparently this has all the hippies and tree huggers up in arms and they are the ones who control the energy agendas of this administration. This may be at least one reason why he is only approving it halfway.

To fill in the gaps, the northern leg of the Keystone pipeline would run from Alberta, across Eastern Montana and Western Nebraska -- where it would pass thru the Sandhills to join an existing leg in Eastern Nebraska.

The Nebraska Sandhills are the primary water source for the Ogallala Aquifer -- which flows under Western Kansas, Western Oklahoma and irrigates crops in West Texas.

The enviros claim that a pipeline rupture in the Sandhills would pollute the aquifer. Two problems with that:

a. Oil floats on water -- any rupture would stay on the surface and not enter the aquifer.

b. There are already five or six other pipelines that cross the Nebraska sandhills. To my knowledge, no ruptures (or pollution of any sort) have occurred.

It's all environmental BS. And Obama doesn't want to go against his wacko base.

We won't be getting 700,000 bpd of Canadian and Bakken oil (boosting our supply by fully 8%) because the President is playing politics with what is clearly a hugely beneficial economic opportunity.

56 posted on 03/22/2012 1:09:39 PM PDT by okie01
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To: 3rdcoastislander

That aquifer ALREADY has 83 pipelines running across it. Some of those have been in the ground since 1932.

Just another manufactured “Crisis” issue that is back-firing in the Messiah’s face.

And watching his followers just swallow down the new CURRENT TRUTH, without even questioning it, is just shocking.


57 posted on 03/22/2012 1:12:48 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
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To: JustSayNoToNannies

I stand corrected......


58 posted on 03/22/2012 1:22:29 PM PDT by GSWarrior (Click HERE to read entire tagline.)
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To: okie01

Thanks for the info. I live in the deep south and know little about all the production up there. We sure are pumping it out of the ground fast down here though.


59 posted on 03/22/2012 1:34:37 PM PDT by 3rdcoastislander (Northern Mexico......aka South Texas.....)
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To: tcrlaf

See, I am sure that many liberals do not know that here in the south. Many of them who I talk to on the subject think it is going to flood the earth with oil and everyone will die. I know that much of what comes out of Obama’s mouth is a lie. His Chicago style politics are corrupting the country but his smooth talking is covering up for it unfortunately.


60 posted on 03/22/2012 1:41:55 PM PDT by 3rdcoastislander (Northern Mexico......aka South Texas.....)
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