The Keystone XL Pipeline Scam

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 12/20/11 | Michael Brune, Sierra Club Executive Director

[SmithL]

With all the political posturing in Congress over the Keystone XL tar-sands oil pipeline, it’s 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 we’re watching unfold in Washington, DC, is more than just a high-stakes political power play — it’s a scam undertaken by Big Oil’s 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. Here’s 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.

[TigersEye]

Michael Brune, Sierra Club Executive Director

Well, there's your problem.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

There is apparently a functioning pipeline running down from Cnanda to okaloma today...think I heard that on Fox business network..

Close to the same route .

[Apercu]

Hey Michael - all your climate change data is BS. Nothing you envirowacko greentards say has any credibility.

[Teacher317]

This pipeline is dangerous, unnecessary, and would cost the American people far more than we can afford.

Dangerous? Thousands of miles of similar existing pipeline all over the US poses no such risk. Quantify the dangers of this pipe.
Unnecessary? The economy desperately needs relief. We al need energy. Higher supply equals lower price.
Cost Americans? It's a private company investing in their own project, which, again, will help bring down energy costs for all Americans.

The environmentalists pushing against the pipeline are (how can I put this politely?) lying to the American people and pandering for the anti-capitalist movement.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Tree bark...that would distort the mind,....causes a tree hugging mentality too ...surely!

[onona]

Indeed. Most people have NO idea of the scope of the pipeline network.

[Irish Eyes]

“San Francisco Chronicle”

I really did not to read the article when I saw where it came from.

[Smokin' Joe]

No matter HOW DEEP YOU GO THERE IS NO DATA TO SUPPORT THESE WILD ASSERTIONS!

I have found similar things studying 'studies' where flawed conclusions from one study were used and referenced in subsequent studies almost ad infinitum. Backtracking to the original study commonly leads one to a whole different set of circumstances or parameters, or just flawed concepts.

[ExCTCitizen]

The Chornicle - and big media - would want us to use them as a heat source. It would be the only way they would make money, since we don’t read them.

[jazusamo]

Michael Brune is an idiot.

[Taxman]

I always spell LIEberal that way.

It is a truism that LIEberals LIE!

We might as well callem like we seeum, right?

[Marine_Uncle]

But his mind is already badly distorted.

[tubebender]

This is the very voting block Oh’Bummer needs in his stable. You can bet your Sweet Bippie these Greens have pledged a super tanker full of money for His Highness campaign...

[American Constitutionalist]

( * More supply will raise prices * )

" And where did this clown get his education....? "

The Nancy Pelosi school of silly economics ?

[American Constitutionalist]

What makes this more sad is some people actually believe this crap propaganda by the environmentalist.

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx for the ping Ernest_at_the_Beach !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[TheOldLady]

They open up their putrid maws, and out spew lies. They don't care what they say, so long as it advances their agenda. They know that their brainwashed zombies, whom they've been churning out of our schools and universities for forty years, will lap up their poison kool aid without question. And the useful idiots have also been trained to hate and shout down anyone who disagrees with or questions those lies.

We're in it up to our noses, folks. We let them take the schools, and they repaid us with two or three generations of the enemy within.

[thackney]

If you expect to useful energy advice and honest information from the Sierra Club, I have a bridge for sale you may be interested in.

[thackney]

Is Michael Brune a lying enviro-whacko? Or is he just an ignorant idiot?

Yes.

[thackney]

There is more than one pipeline already bring petroleum from the Canadian Oil Sands and one of them does run through Oklahoma.

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