Feb 24th 2015, 21:28:05
Obama veto'ed keystone today... I honestly thought at some point (i.e., after the midterm elections) logic would win out, as other pipeline continue to be built safely with little fanfare, but I was wrong.
Why can't America get it's act together do things that aren't centered around ideology and hyperbole? :(
The oil is getting to where it needs to go regardless; it will now continue to get there using rail and less safe pipelines which are more prone to spill and/or crash/explode compared to Keystone. The pipeline won't create jobs, sure, but it makes oil transportation in America safer and gets more rail cars of oil off American (and Canadian, which is what I care about!) rail lines -- making room for other goods to use that space (you pay more for transporting things by rail because the capacity is taken up by oil that could be in a pipeline). Plus America needs the rail space to get coal from mines in the east to ship it to Asia from the west coast.
"Environmentalists" who are against the project must be some of the most clueless people on the planet. The big winner today are environmentalists; the big loser today is the environment.
Why can't America get it's act together do things that aren't centered around ideology and hyperbole? :(
The oil is getting to where it needs to go regardless; it will now continue to get there using rail and less safe pipelines which are more prone to spill and/or crash/explode compared to Keystone. The pipeline won't create jobs, sure, but it makes oil transportation in America safer and gets more rail cars of oil off American (and Canadian, which is what I care about!) rail lines -- making room for other goods to use that space (you pay more for transporting things by rail because the capacity is taken up by oil that could be in a pipeline). Plus America needs the rail space to get coal from mines in the east to ship it to Asia from the west coast.
"Environmentalists" who are against the project must be some of the most clueless people on the planet. The big winner today are environmentalists; the big loser today is the environment.
Edited By: Pang on Feb 24th 2015, 21:30:52
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