Posted on 12/20/2011 5:51:25 PM PST by SmithL
With all the political posturing in Congress over the Keystone XL tar-sands oil pipeline, its easy to lose sight of the real issue: This pipeline is dangerous, unnecessary, and would cost the American people far more than we can afford. What were watching unfold in Washington, DC, is more than just a high-stakes political power play its a scam undertaken by Big Oils congressional puppets on the orders of oil companies that have billions of dollars at stake.
The politicians pushing the pipeline are (how can I put this politely?) lying to the American people and pandering for dirty oil money. What do we really stand to gain if this thing is rammed down our throats? Higher gas prices, more air pollution, the threat of poisoned water, and enough carbon pollution to make stopping climate disruption next to impossible but few of the jobs and none of the huge profits that Big Oil would reap.
Exaggerated job numbers play well to public concern about unemployment and the economy, but they are a hollow promise. The numbers from TransCanada the company behind the pipeline have already been discredited as fuzzy math for using tricks like double counting and incidental employment for dancers, choreographers, and speech therapists. Heres some non-fuzzy math: The pipeline would raise gas prices across the Midwest hurting both consumers and businesses. Ironically, the pipeline could actually destroy more jobs than it generates.
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This must be the west coast wing nuts newt was talking about in the last debates. He nailed it!
That says it all!
Oh man. I thought it was going to be a great idea. It might cost more money which everything does, but I had no idea it was dangerous. Well if this is not compatible than at least do some work in Alaska to get some oil in use in America. Do something!!! If the Keystone thing is not what it is supposed to be than fine, but do something!!!!!
Some other important reasons that are just as stupid and absurd as those mentioned in the article:
And it will give people warts.
Your children won't be safe playing in their yards.
Some slow crawling animal might be inconvenienced.
Birds will have to fly over it.
Beings from the planet Zeta Reticuli might attack it because they can see it from space.
It might cause cancer in somebody somewhere.
It will carry that evil, smelly, Black oil.
It's got cooties.
The pipeline will be made of metal that Mother Gaia can't afford to spare.
It offends Earth and all the liberals living on it.
All the naked santa’s agree.
I’ve always been concerned with preserving the environment, and I can remember a long, long time ago when I thought that things like the Sierra Club were good.
But they all went berserk with the cultural revolution.
Shut down the pipelines. Close the coal plants. Don’t cut any trees or burn any brush. And, above all, exterminate as many babies as you can, because humans are a burden on the earth.
No, thanks. The Sierra Club and the rest of them can shove it.
“More supply will raise prices......”
Ri-i-i-i-ight! In exactly the same way Globull Warming causes more snow and freezes my tender buns!
I own stock in TransCanada and I’ve made a killing. If this was a reckless company, I’d sell the stock as recklessness would lead to big accidents and huge lawsuits. We the shareholder don’t want them to be careless or wreck the environment, who would gain from that?
This guy isn’t comparing the pipeline to the alternatives, which are what exactly? Windmills? He’s tilting at them.
I’d love to get my hands on the electric service box on whatever building this clown is in.
Westcoast liberals wanting to intervene on core economic infrastructure.
Meanwhile, I’m sure he wants bullet trains and windmills. Niether are economically viable; both require my tax money to procede.
Horrors of horrors, increasing American exports!
Sierra Club?
Yeah, they’re impartial.
I was laughing pretty hard by the end of the second sentence. I managed to get through a little over a paragraph.
Funny stuff, but I had to stop. It was kind of like when something is “too sweet”. Maybe I’ll read more for some laughs later.
No matter HOW DEEP YOU GO THERE IS NO DATA TO SUPPORT THESE WILD ASSERTIONS!
Sierra Club was once a semi-moderate and almost reasoned organization.
They have now been completely taken over by the commies.
Apparently increasing the supply of a commodity relative to its demand now increases prices. Congress must have repealed the law of supply and demand as a part of the payroll tax extension.
They don’t allow us to burn stuff in California, except on designated burn days.
Then, why the Hell are we in this situation, Brune? Because of the high-strung, intolerant ecomaniacs that refuse any discussion of local drilling.
Twice he stated a pipeline would RAISE gas prices the very DAY after the lights went out in Candlestick Park during an NFL game —wow.
“We, at the San Francisco Chronicle, only want to see ‘The Keister Pipeline’...”
Fixed it.
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