Posted on 02/24/2015 12:38:37 PM PST by tcrlaf
Nearly two weeks after Congress approved the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, President Obama has officially vetoed the bill calling for its construction. The decision follows a clear statement from the White House last month saying the president would not sign the bill into law if Congress, currently controlled by Republican lawmakers, passed it.
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A business that pays less money for fuel, has more money to hire employees and reduce unemployment. Obama is destroying our economy!
FUBO
“All the more reason to elect Scott Walker in ‘16.”
Would Walker fire everyone Hussein put in office and prosecute the last administration’s embezzlers, traitors and murderers, or would he “reach across the aisle” like the last Republican president did and allow all the embedded enemies to cause American troop casualties at will?
For those that do not know:
Tom Steyer is the wacko green billionaire who promised 55 million for the Obama library if Obama vetoed the pipeline bill.
What Repub president would do that?
Yes
Of course he does. After all, the State Department has ONLY had 6 years to “study” it.
A library that no one will be allowed to enter, filled with trashy pulp fiction and unfilled coloring books...
Thats right.
As well as the attached bathhouse.
That’s where most of the 55 million is going.
No worries, he’ll give them 7.000 gov’;t backed green jobs and everything will be a ok (mega sarc vomit tag just in case it wasn’t self evident).
“What Repub president would do that?”
Who would you consider to have been “the last Republican president” as alluded to in my post?
Enviro Nuts? Nope, I’d say the muzzles over in the sandbox that don’t want us to be energy independent.
It would seem to me, that given the incredible increase in rail oil shipments, and the disaster that a derailed oil train would cause; that the enviro its would be all for a safer way to transport said oil.
I know, I know, trying to apply logical thinking to lefties is, well, insane.
Maybe they will be less upset when they realize that there are at least 200,000 wind and solar jobs out there to organize. Also those numbers are increasing about 20,000 per year, so I am not going to shed any tears for the unions, since I am sure they will come to realize that renewable energy workers are a potential gravy train for organizers.
Good. Now he can’t hide behind Harry Reid’s skirt. He had to put his veto pen where his fat mouth is, so it can be hung around his neck.
Yes, we have just had another train derailment in West Virginia. Apparently these were carrying the highly flammable ND Bakken oil in the newer cars with 1/8 inch additional steel cladding. On the other hand only about a tenth of the cars in the train burned, so perhaps the extra steel helped. No one died. However, pipelines are not a guarantee of safety either. The 6 ft diameter pipe that split crossing a Kalamazoo River tributary and ran for 24 hours before being discovered has cost at least $1 billion for cleanup and is still not cleaned. That tar sands dilbit is a bitch to clean up, much worse than regular oil. I guess a lot of people are glad they got those clean up jobs. ON the other hand, the dozens of people who lost their homes permanently are not so happy.
Most people have not heard of the major pipeline explosion in Qingdao, China in late 2013. It killed 62 people. Even more than the 47 killed in Lac Megantic shown in your picture. About a mile of pipeline blew up. Here is a link:
Does anyone have any information on major Solar or Wind energy disasters?
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