Keystone Pipeline to Be Built Because There’s No Reason Not To

New York Magazine ^ | Jonathan Chait

[SunkenCiv]

Spin-doctoring ping. Thanks nickcarraway.

[bert]

The Secretary of State must approve the report and can take as long as he wants before taking it up. With the peace crisis in Israel and Syria and the Iran stuff, he will never get around to it

[OkiMusashi]

No expert here, but they should almost have to transport U.S. crude, too. Bitumen is pretty thick stuff. I would think that they will mix it with much higher gravity crude and condensate just so it’ll be easier to pump down a pipeline.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

So....is the EPA going to be releasing a report critical of the political situation in the Middle East?

[marron]

if we block the pipeline, Canada will just ship the oil out by rail.

And that oil will be replaced, as it presently is, by oil brought in by ship. If environmental concerns matter at all, replacing the parade of tanker ships crossing the high seas full of oil would be a high priority.

But since environmentalists and a goodly number of our politicians are OPEC flacks, it is the reverse. Protecting that parade of ships from a competing pipeline becomes job one.

[familyop]

NIMBYs are concerned about their “property values,” and few local, yocal oil-connected businesses in the U.S.A don’t want the extra competition. But if the pipeline goes through, your fuel prices will go down.

[FBD]

Beautiful. And spot on.

[PhilDragoo]

Kerry as Mr. Teresa can move a hydrant--but he can't get his pipeline up. And Bury won't take the pen out his butt and spoil his smirk.