Posted on 01/18/2012 7:19:36 PM PST by pabianice
Let’s face it: Big Oil is used to getting its way. But not any more.
President Obama has just rejected a permit for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline -- a project that promised riches for the oil giants and an environmental disaster for the rest of us.
His decision represents a victory of historic proportions for NRDC and hundreds of thousands of committed activists like you who have waged an uphill, years-long fight against one of the most nightmarish fossil fuel projects of our time.
Please thank the President right away for his game-changing decision.
But get ready to keep the pressure on the Obama Administration -- because Big Oil is going to fight back hard and fast.
Why? Because this was a prime-time fight. The oil giants made sure of that.
First, they had their Congressional boosters put the President to an election-year test by forcing him to decide the pipeline’s fate within 60 days. Then, the oil lobby itself rolled out its biggest PR guns to get the job done.
The head of the American Petroleum Institute sent the White House a very public and blatant warning: Approve the Keystone XL or face "huge political consequences."
Big Oil put all its political capital on the line -- and a ton of money, too -- AND LOST!
They lost because millions of Americans -- including you -- stood up and said, We’re done with fossil fuel schemes that destroy our land, poison our water and wreak havoc with our climate so that oil companies can make out like bandits.
And because Big Oil lost, this is not the end of the fight. This is the beginning of the real battle for America’s energy future.
That battle will be fought in Congress, where Representatives who’ve collected $12 million from the oil & gas industry over the past two years are sure to try to raise Keystone from the dead . . . it will be fought in British Columbia, where the oil giants want to ram a tar sands pipeline and supertanker traffic through the heart of the Spirit Bear’s coastal rainforest home . . . it will be fought in the Polar Bear Seas, where the Interior Department has given tentative approval for Shell to begin drilling this summer . . . and it will be fought state by state where NRDC is championing clean energy alternatives to a grim, pollution-filled future of coal-fired power plants, environmentally destructive fracking and offshore oil spills.
I know you’ll stand with us shoulder to shoulder in the critical weeks, months and years ahead. We need your kind of never-say-die commitment -- the kind that killed the Keystone XL and just made our collective future a little bit brighter. Thank you!
Sincerely,
Frances Beinecke President
P.S. Please be sure to thank President Obama. It’s so important that the White House feel overwhelming support for taking this stand against Big Oil, because we’ll soon be asking them to face down the oil giants again.
Precisely what Obama wants you to do. You'll then need continuing public assistance and in order to continue it, you'll be voting democrat (arm twist not necessary). Nancy and Obama will be pleased to get the news. Their legacy depends on the welfare/entitlements state.
There are two pipe lines, the keystone one to the USA and one to Kitimet B.C. where the oil will be loaded on supertankers and sold on the world market. The oil is already going through the latter route on rail tank cars.
Absolutely nothing was done “for the environment.” The only effect is to limit USA supply.
Yes that pipeline across pristine BC lands and rivers to a pacific oil terminal for loading onto ChiCom ships will be much more environmentally friendly.
All this ignorant marxist trashing of “Big Oil” — just where in hell do these bastards think their gasoline, heating oil, motor oil, and a gazillion consumer goods based on petroleum all come from? You would be hard pressed to find a single thing that every American uses every day that doesn’t have a petroleum input either as energy or raw material. Class warfare and anti-business warfare are the new norm under the marxist POTUS.
To #20: FEnton is an old red from the Vietnam days and Liberation News Service.
THe NRDC has grown more leftist over the years so this POS’s letter is what you would expect of a marxist Obama syncophant.
My e-mail would go something like this.
Thanks A$$hole!
for my “job” (If I am lucky enough to hang on to it) I drive my own truck. Somedays I burn as little a 15 gallons, others as much at 50.
So hey, thanks for jacking my costs! I HIGHLY doubt my employer will jack my pay.
“let then eat dirt”.... Mooschelle Antoinette
The NRDC website has a timetable of their “victories.”
Alar is not on that list.
Then they can live like that! No vehicle (except a bicycle), no electricity, no gas. No lights, no heat, no a/c, no modern conveniences. Cook on a fireplace or wood stove (and chop your own wood). Make sure you have a well out in your yard and a hand pump.
If you want the rest of us to live primitive, then you darned will should be willing to do it yourself, first!!
My e-mail would go something like this.
Thanks A$$hole!
for my “job” (If I am lucky enough to hang on to it) I drive my own truck. Somedays I burn as little a 15 gallons, others as much at 50.
So hey, thanks for jacking my costs! I HIGHLY doubt my employer will jack my pay.
Thank Obama for pissing away jobs??
Nah. Don’t think so.
Thank Obama for sending oil we need to China? No I’ll pass.
Obama just screwed the American public and you morons want that public to thank him. What a bunch of assclowns.....
What he has done with the Pipeline should show anybody with their eyes open, exactly what he will do if he gets a second term. He will push everything the Democrats have been babbling about for 50 years.
Here’s my thanks:
FUBO.
You framed the question perfectly. Now, if only one of the candidates will ask it.
“I got your thanks, right here, Obama.”
LOL, LOL!
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