It’s his history: Vote: Present.
What a back bencher! Leading from his rear again, I see.
Delaying the Keystone XL pipeline expansions means we buy more oil from OPEC.
No. Delay it until it dies. Just like he delayed oil development in the Gulf of Mexico until most of the drilling rigs had left for foreign opportunities.
This pipeline is already to go. But they can’t afford to KEEP it ready to go. The supplies and the workers will all go elsewhere. What, they’re going to sit there on their hands, and on expensive supplies, for a whole year and then risk having even further delays if the wrong people get elected again? Cowardly RINOs have proved just as bad as Communist Democrats in the past.
So, China will end up getting this oil, just like they’re getting the oil off of Cuba while we sit on our hands down there, too.
Hey all of you unemployed...look at Obama and his stalling of 50,000 jobs any of you could have....I honestly think this is an issue the republicans could beat him with....ask “why President Obama are you stallion on something that could really create real jobs?”
OIL SHIPPED BY TRAIN INSTEAD.
Meanwhile, oil is being shipped from N. Dakota and Canada by rail. The increase in freight care loadings with crude oil is unprecedented in modern times. This much crude oil has not been shipped by train since the days of John Rockefeller.
Much if not most of the oil is being shipped on the Burlington Northern the majority of which is owned by none other than Warren Buffet. Do you think there is any connection here?
A train wreck of oil carrying freight cars in a unit train would be a disaster of proportions to make a pipeline leak look like mere child’s play. Train wrecks have no safety shut-off valves and they also create lots of sparks. Trains run through the heart of most populated areas, their traditional routes to serve populations for transportation. Pipelines, on the other hand, seldom transit population centers, the righ-of-way is just too expensive so they instead stick to less expensive and less populated areas.
Stranded oil is commanding a freight rate of $14 to $15 per barrell... an incredible profit margin for freight trains.
When enviros get pitted against the average Joe trying to survive (i.e. ‘social justice’) they lose EVERY TIME.
Best tactic we got in our arsenal.
Hussein will put this pipeline proposal into a piece of horsecrap legislation. The Republicans will not pass said legislation, then Hussein and the media will decry how the Republicans are blocking energy independence.
The fact that Hussein could have approved this months ago will NEVER be reported.
What? the safest method of transporting oil isn't safe enough?
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One of the few things that Obama could do to help his reelection is to agree to sign the OK on the Keystone pipe line. The resulting jobs and economic activity are one of the few things that could impact the national unemployment rate immediately.
Therefore, I am glad that Obama will stand in the way, the next President will sign it and start a snowball effect of creating more jobs, a LOT more jobs!