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I guess he was getting old waiting for Boehner to take it to zero.
Good on’im!
He’s going to start approving stuff all over the place.
if we had any kind of decent President, this would NEVER have even been an issue. How much I despise Obama!!!
Exactly what it is, a threat.
Until some entities that highly in favor come forward with an ordered campaign, and plenty of financial backing to make this pipeline happen, then it becomes a promise.
Among other things that could be getting under way YESTERDAY, is developing an infrastructure for the distribution of compressed natural gas as a motor fuel, and a well developed scheme for retrofitting the existing fleet of personal and commercial vehicles to use CNG as a motor fuel. This would solve several problems simultaneously.
1. Much lowered emissions, as far less of various pollutants (particulate carbon, unburned hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide) would be produced.
2. Right now, CNG is selling for approximately half the cost in terms of BTU’s of energy produced, compared to either gasoline or Diesel fuel.
3. The vast stores of this domestic source of energy would go far to eliminate dependence on imported petroleum, and further restore our balance of trade with the world, as well as vastly shifting the potential for economic warfare with countries that have no compunction about depriving the US of any advantage.
4. If it is going to take so many years for new nuclear plants to go online, we need SOMETHING as a transition from dependence on coal and heavier petroleum fractions, because wind and solar are incapable of taking up the slack. Natural gas fired turbines with cogeneration plants using the exhaust heat to drive steam boilers, to produce electrical energy, the TRUE basis of increasing wealth in this country and the world.
Obama doesn’t care about his threats. He considers himself a king not an elected president. If he cared about consequences he wouldn’t do most of the stuff he does.
Hope Gerard has his taxes in order....he could be in for a rough ride through the IRS
Let’s get on with it but with the following important caveat. Absolutely no taking land by eminent domain unless it broadly benefits the USA.
Build the pipeline in non-aquifer areas. If it is done with the use of eminent domain for private enterprise, then private Canadian enterprise must provide benefits to Americans, and require that the oil be sold on the USA market.
Anything else is an outrage to the core belief in private ownership of property. I own it and if you want to buy it then pay the market price or build a pipeline around it.
Otherwise this oil should not be on the global market for the benefit of only oil companies and China. Also require that USA refineries be used in the refining process.
The risk of this pipeline (just as with gas drilling) is to every American. Any gain should be shared between the oil companies and Americans.
How does globalizing our energy resources help our energy independence? It doesn’t unless we have a production surplus and have filled our strategic reserve. Then offer the surplus product to the world. Until then we need cheap energy in the USA to be competitive.
When the choice comes down to a strong USA versus more profits for global oil companies, there is no choice. I support the USA before I support global corporations.
The pipeline’s been held up and might be rejected for a few rich NIMBYs with land in remote Nebraska. ...”property values,” you know. The environmentalist complaints from them are only fallacious arguments, as usual.
We won’t see such outrages so often after the other end of the real estate crash 20 years or so from now (due to the Baby Boomer die-off).
His original plan was to delay the decision on the pipeline in favor of the environmentalists who he desperately needs to help in his re-election campaign. On the other side of the coin he promised the unions that he would approve it after the election, but he needed to appease his environmentalists first. The problem is he no longer has time, because the Canadians said if the US doesn’t want the oil, they will pump it to the west coast and sell it to China. Now he also has the 60 day decision timeline. What will he do? It sucks to be Obama.