Slippery Truths: What The Data Says About The Keystone XL Pipeline

Popular Science ^ | January 13, 2015 | Katie Peek

[yoe]

After it was narrowly defeated last November, approval to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline has just passed in the Senate, and is expected to pass in the House of Representatives (by the end of next week). President Obama plans to veto the legislation, after which it will be sent back to both houses of Congress for another round of voting.

The contentious 1,200-mile, 36-inch-wide steel pipeline would transport both heavy oil and bitumen—low-grade crudes that need extra refining before they can be made into products such as gasoline—from Alberta’s oil sands to refineries on the Gulf Coast. The pipeline has become a flash point, both for environmentalists and landowners along the proposed route, who have lobbied hard to stop it, and oil companies who have lobbied equally hard to push it through. With each side of the debate so entrenched in its own rhetoric, fact seems inextricable from fiction. But with data, it’s possible to cut through some of the often-hyperbolic claims.

[yoe]

Your Rep. needs to know where you stand on this....

[thackney]

expected to pass in the House of Representatives (by the end of next week)

It already past, last week.

HOUSE APPROVES KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3245198/posts
1/9/2015

Don’t call your Rep, call your Senators. They it is on the floor now:

McConnell threatens midnight session over Keystone XL pipeline
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3246437/posts
1/13/2015

[TurboZamboni]

BFL

[Sam Gamgee]

Oh so Obama can’t wiggle and wobble now, eh? He has to make a choice on Keystone? Yeah or Nay?

Good.

[Logical me]

If the King Obama vetoes the pipeline then it goes back to the Senate. A re-vote there would need 60 to override and become law. Here is the important side. A record must be kept in the minds of Americans who did not vote for the pipeline and in 2016 make sure those Senators pay the price, kick out.

[The Great RJ]

Key point...the Keystone pipeline is being built with private funds. How much taxpayer money have we wasted on green energy boondoggles that have produced no new jobs?

[norwaypinesavage]

Your chart is missing two important bars:

Funds spent in North America 100%
Funds given to Muslim Terrorists 0

[Antoninus II]

A re-vote there would need 60 to override and become law

Wrong.

The veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.

http://www.senate.gov/reference/glossary_term/veto.htm

60 Senate votes are needed to force cloture. Meaning override a filibuster.

[Kenny Bunk]

A record must be kept in the minds of Americans

Where?