Posted on 01/15/2014 3:27:54 PM PST by jazusamo
Where crude oil is concerned, Canada waits for no country. It doesn’t matter how wealthy or how friendly that country is -- or whether that country is the United States.
With the Canada-to-Texas Keystone XL pipeline stuck in limbo on the U.S. side, Canada’s Energy Board recently gave a thumbs up to a $6.5 billion pipeline designed to carry 525,000 barrels of oil per day from the oil sands of Alberta to ships on the British Columbia coast. The final destination is most likely Asia.
The development has the U.S. oil industry attacking the Obama administration over its drawn-out process.
“It’s taken longer to approve the Keystone XL pipeline than it did to win World War II, longer than it took us to put a man in space, and almost as long as it took to build the Trans-Continental railroad 155 years ago,” said Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
As much as I love my Canadian friends, there’s this:
...the US is on the verge of supplanting Saudi Arabia as the world’s oil-producing powerhouse. Here’s the link:
Canada should do what it needs to do for its own interests. After we hang the scum democrats for sedition and attempted mass murder of our grandparents, we can sit again with our Canadian friends and make a deal.
Amen to that...The enviro-nazis don’t have the sense G-d gave a dodo bird.
Agreed, I’m not blaming Canadians in the least.
“Agreed, I’m not blaming Canadians in the least.”
I’ve always respected your opinion. Lock ‘n load, brother. Much as I hate to say it, we are on the edge of CW II. This time, we do what General Washington didn’t do - burn that seditious shithole, New York City, to the ground.
Thumbs up? May I suggest they use another digit, aimed at Obama?
‘zackly.
Canada Ping!
Sorry, I forgot to ping you.
“It’s taken longer to approve the Keystone XL pipeline than it did to win World War II, longer than it took us to put a man in space, and almost as long as it took to build the Trans-Continental railroad 155 years ago,” said Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute.Thanks jazusamo.
If you are going to post a link, the least you could do is make it open to all. I will not open a new account to read one article.
Click the first link in the search below:
Typically, many online sources that require subscription with a direct link, show up as in search links as readable.
It doesn’t always work, but it often does. But it doesn’t allow a poster to supply a direct link.
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