Um, because it keeps prices high, which increases the dependent class, which erodes the middle class, and empowers our leftist dictator-wannabes.
Those of us who remember the construction of the Alaska pipeline in the 70s witnesses the same chorus. Now, it is far from controversial.
There’s no mystery here...JUST FOLLOW THE MONEY....
Canadian Oil and the Keystone Pipeline
Burlington Northern Santa Fe(BNSF) Railroad owns all of the rail lines in the US connecting to western Canada, and they haul 80%+ of the crude from Canada to the midwest and Texas, or charge other Short Line railroads a fee to use their tracks.
BNSF charges $30 per barrel to haul the oil, where the Keystone would cost $10 by the State Departments own estimates.
BNSF is owned by Berkshire-Hathaway whose chairman is Warren Buffet.
In the last 2 election cycles, Buffet gave extensively to democrat causes and candidates, including $40K+ to Obama in 2012. He also bundled and hosted numerous fundraisers for Obama.
Buffet could stand to lose $2B+ a year if the pipeline goes in, and he makes the same amount every year it’s delayed.
If anyone believes the pipeline isn’t being blocked by Obama on Buffet’s behalf, they’re nuts.
The local city owned power company wanted to invest in a new coal fired plant that was to be built. That would have allowed them to better serve their customers by buying power at a preferred rate rather than the higher rate. You’d have thought they were trying to sacrifice children on alters. (Actually, that would probably have been preferred by the lunatics.) Now, the new plant was going to be built anyway. The question was whether or not to invest in it in exchange for preferred rates. I’ve never witnessed such insane hysteria. They held a referendum and the proposal failed. Now our power rates are sky-high. The liberal anti-(fill-in-today’s-lunatic-rant)people are idiots.
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
Years ago I had people tell me the ALASKA pipeline would never be built. I said that when the Arabs cut off the oil again it would be built.
The Arabs cut off the oil, the pipeline was built.
To Hell with that, they are belching out megatons of black smoke, full of soot and very toxic compounds
It's so bad, you can't see two blocks during the daytime, you have to wear a mask, you can see it from space.
bkmk
The author fails to mention that keystone was planned in compliance with the articles in NAFTA ...North American Free Trade Agreement which requires Canada, in this case, to offer energy resources to the United States prior to offering on the world market. Abrogating an international trade agreement would cause America to lose much of what little credibility Obama has with the rest of the world. So he retreats to his basic strategy..lie deflect and stall...