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Obama Buddy Buffett Doubles BNDF investment due to Keystone Decision
American Thinker ^ | November 9, 2015 | Daniel John Sobieski

Posted on 11/09/2015 7:44:39 AM PST by raptor22

When President Obama announced he was killing the Keystone XL pipeline, he said he was agreeing with the State Department’s assessment that the pipeline from Canada “would not serve the national interests of the United States.” The fact is that it would not have benefitted the personal financial interests of friend and economic mentor, Warren Buffett, who can rest assured that oil from Canada and the nearby Bakken formation in North Dakota will continue to be transported by a railroad he owns. As Investor’s Business Daily noted in a 2011 editorial:

Killing the Keystone XL pipeline may help one of the world's richest men get richer. North Dakota's booming oil fields will now grow more dependent on a railroad the president's economic guru just bought….

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; US: North Dakota
KEYWORDS: alberta; amthinker; bakken; bnsf; bnsfrailroad; crude; energy; keystonexl; kxl; oil; oilsands; oiltrain; pipelines; shale; warenbuffett; yeskxl

1 posted on 11/09/2015 7:44:39 AM PST by raptor22
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To: Nachum; markomalley; Clairity; Carlucci; grey_whiskers; meyer; WL-law; Para-Ord.45; ...

WARREN BUFFETT KEYSTONE XL PING


2 posted on 11/09/2015 7:45:14 AM PST by raptor22 (Follow me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken or facebook.com/danielsobieski)
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How much is a share of Berkshire-Hathaway going for these days anyway? Something like 250,000 dollars?

Maybe this will help him pay that billion dollars in back taxes he owes.

HA! Riiiiiiiiiight.

3 posted on 11/09/2015 7:50:14 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: raptor22

Obama’s Buddy Buffett adds more cash to Obama’s swiss bank account


4 posted on 11/09/2015 7:54:05 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: raptor22

I am in before the next rail train accident!

Boom! Killing people, but we be saving mother erf!


5 posted on 11/09/2015 7:57:03 AM PST by hadaclueonce (I thought Ethanol was the devil, now i find it is America is an Oligarchy)
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To: raptor22

Oh, Warren Buffett. I thought it was about Jimmy Buffett.


6 posted on 11/09/2015 7:59:26 AM PST by Tax-chick (You have 19 days to get ready for the Advent Kitteh!)
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To: raptor22

BNSF?


7 posted on 11/09/2015 8:08:02 AM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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WARREN BUFFET KEYSTONE XL PIN


8 posted on 11/09/2015 8:14:03 AM PST by raptor22 (Follow me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken or facebook.com/danielsobieski)
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Buffett better watch out, the Greenies at EPA are liable to put restrictions on interstate shipment of fossil fuels.


9 posted on 11/09/2015 8:39:21 AM PST by Mike Darancette (CA the sanctuary state for stupid.)
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Obama Cronyism. I wonder how much it took to bribe comrade Obama.


10 posted on 11/09/2015 8:59:22 AM PST by subterfuge (TED CRUZ FOR POTUS!)
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WARREN BUFFETT KYSTONE PING


11 posted on 11/09/2015 10:19:08 AM PST by raptor22 (Follow me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken or facebook.com/danielsobieski)
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Burlington Northern and Santa Fe


12 posted on 11/09/2015 10:19:56 AM PST by raptor22 (Follow me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken or facebook.com/danielsobieski)
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Head line still has typo BNDF.


13 posted on 11/09/2015 10:21:46 AM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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