Posted on 01/10/2015 8:18:34 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee
WASHINGTON (AP) Republicans in Congress and a state supreme court have thrown the political hot potato known as Keystone XL straight back onto President Barack Obama's lap.
So loath is Obama to making a decision about the proposed oil pipeline that deliberations have entered their sixth year a period nearly as long as Obama's time in office. He's blamed the seemingly endless delays on bureaucratic formalities and parochial issues in Nebraska, even when skeptics claimed that the politics of the next election were giving the president cold feet.
Now the election is over, the Nebraska issue is resolved, and a bipartisan bill forcing the pipeline's approval may soon be heading to Obama's desk. Forces on all sides of the debate, for once, have the same demand for Obama: Just make the call. . .
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It's good strategy being executed well.
There are already 100,000 miles of pipeline in the US. How is it currently being addressed?
Thanks Brad, We needed that.
A breath if fresh cool air from North and far West of DC
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Rab.
Income from 0’s family wells in Kansas is the only think keeping him from supporting it. He’s greedy!
Pipeline is a ‘freebie’. No Federal dollars going into it, so they don’t have to take it away from entitlements. Also, it’s a bipartisan issue - most Dems who aren’t in the radical green category want it, even the unions want it.
There are not 100,000 miles of pipe carrying Canadian tars sands oil also known as DILBIT which means dilute bitumin or something like that. Dilbit is tar sands mixed with corrosive chemicals to enable it to flow through a pipe. It is acid, corrosive, and abrasive (from the sand) and much harder on pipes than most other forms of oil. My main concern is with this type of oil, and the special consideration that is being given to a foreign country and companies, unfair to both our property owners and our other US businesses.
Methinks that is an incorrect assumption ...
Above all else, he’s lazy. I just can’t see him with any desire at all to keep this up another 4 yrs even if the laws let him. And the Chicago Mob has already started pimping Fauxcahontas as Baraq 2.0
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