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Pipeline Protest Belies National Security 'Concerns'
Michigan Capitol Confidential ^ | 11/12/2011 | Russ Harding

Posted on 11/12/2011 5:37:40 PM PST by MichCapCon

Thousands of demonstrators marched around the White House this past weekend in opposition to the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project, which would bring oil from tar sands in Alberta, Canada, to Texan refineries. This is ironic. Environmental groups frequently enlist conservative support for alternative energy by claiming that imported oil from the Middle East is a national security concern, but the demonstrators’ attempt to convince President Obama to deny the necessary permits for this pipeline punctures any illusions that the environmental movement’s infatuation with alternative energy is motivated by a concern about national security.

It is estimated by geologists that Canadian oil sands may contain the second-largest known oil reserves, behind only Saudi Arabia. The United States has only two choices: continue to import more oil from the politically troubled Middle East, or encourage the development of oil reserves in North America...

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: oil; pipeline; xlpipeline

1 posted on 11/12/2011 5:37:46 PM PST by MichCapCon
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To: MichCapCon

They want us in hock to the Middle East because the hate America — from the President down!


2 posted on 11/12/2011 5:43:09 PM PST by Stepan12
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To: Stepan12

you are exactly correct. Obama and his administration do not want best for America,but rather they want to make us to miserable there will be a revolution.


3 posted on 11/12/2011 6:09:27 PM PST by rcofdayton
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Stop Goofing Off And Donate


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4 posted on 11/12/2011 6:13:03 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: MichCapCon

“Thousands of demonstrators”

Communist-paid extras.


5 posted on 11/13/2011 5:53:54 AM PST by RoadTest (For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.)
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To: RoadTest

Greetings RoadTest:

Craigslist is loaded with Washington DC “activist” help wanted jobs.

Cheers,
OLA


6 posted on 11/13/2011 10:31:29 PM PST by OneLoyalAmerican (In God I trust, all others provide citations.)
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To: OneLoyalAmerican

I read that the French Revolution was staged like that, with paid extras. That the king and queen had already granted the concessions the revolutionaries wanted and that it was not a popular uprising,

In those days they weren’t called Communist but “The League Of Just Men”.
They were anything but.


7 posted on 11/14/2011 9:46:44 AM PST by RoadTest (For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.)
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