Keystone must be a huge millstone around the neck of Barry Soetoro.
Not only does he have huge considerations about big donors the whacked out enviro-commies but he has the kingdom to deal with as well. Two diametrically opposed forces in the hard left's world.
Add in concerns about whether there is enough refining capacity in Texas to convert more heavy crude into usable oil for his Communist buddies in Venezuela and you have a true clusterfork of mega proportions for the regime.
One would think that Keystone would be highly undesirable for the mentor of our Dear Leader; the Saudis. Ever since college ozero has been fed clothed and mentored by fellow rabid Islamists from Saudi Arabia. From his homo lover in college to the top of the top of the kingdom today that he has no problem bowing to zero has links and obligations to the Saudis.
Their recent political move to lower crude oil prices by producing balls to the wall over ten million barrels per day instead of cutting production to hold prices as in the past says volumes. By the way never say fossil fuel--such a thing does not exist--think about it, loads of dinosaurs piled on top of one another creating huge pools of oil--I don't think so
The game for the Saudis of course if to squeeze Russia from trying to create a gas pipeline through Syria and to generally harass Iran.The Iranians want to nuke them to "kingdom come" making a parking lot where the kingdom now stands. More of the sunni vs. shia BS no doubt.
Unfortunately for the regime, the Saudis have to participate in big league capitalism to accomplish their goals which are not always the same as the Chicago thugocracy.
Lower oil prices as bray pointed out helps our economy and when you tag on Keystone as a real possibility you have an economic boon that will give the Chicago thugocracy headaches in their all our war on the US.
So once again zero is between a rock and a hard place due to his overlapping goals which are always wrong for the US.Ironically, he's forced into helping the country this time. No doubt his PR staff will take full credit for doing so.
They have that part of the equation down to a science. Oil production is way up because of drilling/fracking on private lands, while Obama and the DC herd stifle production on federal land. Still, they claim credit for production being Way Up---it's in spite of, not because of.