Posted on 03/10/2013 5:30:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I HOPE the president turns down the Keystone XL oil pipeline. (Who wants the U.S. to facilitate the dirtiest extraction of the dirtiest crude from tar sands in Canada’s far north?) But I don’t think he will. So I hope that Bill McKibben and his 350.org coalition go crazy. I’m talking chain-themselves-to-the-White-House-fence-stop-traffic-at-the-Capitol kind of crazy, because I think if we all make enough noise about this, we might be able to trade a lousy Keystone pipeline for some really good systemic responses to climate change.
We don’t get such an opportunity often — namely, a second-term Democratic president who is under heavy pressure to approve a pipeline to create some jobs but who also has a green base that he can’t ignore. So cue up the protests, and pay no attention to people counseling rational and mature behavior. We need the president to be able to say to the G.O.P. oil lobby, “I’m going to approve this, but it will kill me with my base. Sasha and Malia won’t even be talking to me, so I’ve got to get something really big in return.”
Face it: The last four years have been a net setback for the green movement. While President Obama deserves real praise for passing a historic increase in vehicle mileage efficiency and limits on the emissions of new coal-fired power plants, the president also chose to remove the term “climate change” from his public discourse and kept his talented team of environmentalists in a witness-protection program, banning them from the climate debate. This silence coincided with record numbers of extreme weather events — droughts and floods — and with a huge structural change in the energy marketplace.
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I read this earlier today. I thought it was satire.
Thomas Friedman is an idiot
It's Sunday - so I'm in lazyboy mode. Did a fridge run and now I'm recharged. And . . .
Thomas Friedman is still a total idiot.
Is it true that Tom Friedman’s prom date was Paul Krugman?
Yes, there are other crude oil pipelines from Canada to the US. But they all terminate in the mostly land-locked and crude-short Midwest (PADD III). Keystone would move cheap crude all the way to Houston, where it would trash the structure of world crude prices. Crude markets are already glutted and yet more crude flowing into the refining complex around Houston would force the Saudis and Russians to further reduce output to keep prices up.
Make no mistake about this: The problem with Keystone has nothing to do with environmental concerns. The real issue is from a US national security standpoint. It would put severe downward pressure on crude oil market prices, which the US has been successfully propping up for more than a decade as part of multi-pronged economic warfare against the Chinese. All the enviro yammering is just window dressing. It is geopolitics, national security and it is China.
From what I understand, Mr. Friedman, the tar sands oil is already coming south. Transported by nobama’s BFF Warren Buffet via his railroad.
The pipeline will make transportation quicker and less costly. In addition to creating a slew of jobs, both short term (building) and long term (maintenance).
I read an article recently, sorry, I don’t have a link, wish I did, that said the amount of oil and natural gas right here in the US is more than what they’ve got in the Middle East. The US could become a net exporter of oil and gas. Plus, the reserve will hold us for 600 years.
I realize that tar sands and fracking scare the sh!t outta you mentally diseased greenie leftards with a windmill stuck up your butt. Just think: no more stupid electric cars, no more solar panels for as far as the eye can see, no more Eagle killing windmills spoiling a beautiful view, no more taxpayer funding of rip-off “green” companies about to file bankruptcy. Too bad for you. Go suck on it.
House so big...
Brain so small..
Thomas Friedman has them all.
Burma Shave
New York, imports and the debt regime, scheming to increase imports by way of a cheap Canadian dollar. The anti-American crooks in the northeast will keep it up, until our country collapses. No thanks. Let’s buy extra oil from Canada instead of the Middle East, and start producing more useful things on US soil again.
Isn’t he the guy who makes his living mowing down trees for newsprint?
Burma Shave bump! I remember reading those signs as a kid. Hilarious!
Not sure. But they would make a cute couple, that’s for sure. Soulmates.
Friedman’s face is in the dictionary accompanying the word “hypocrite”.
I used to get him and Paul Krugman mixed up. I wonder why. /s
That pool doesn’t heat itself.
I’m pretty sure Tom Friedman is an idiot.
In my Roget’s thesaurus, ‘Thomas L. Friedman’ is listed as an antonym to ‘introspection’
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