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Most US oil exports come from Latin America or Canada. When your knowledge isn't purely from conservative rhetoric, you tend to know these things (which are easy to find; google is your friend).
I assume you mean "imports." Right?
Either way you are incorrect, most egregiously since you went out of your way to make this point to rebut an assertion on Saudi oil imports. Saudi Arabia is in fact the number two exporter of oil to the United States. Those Latin America countries, combined, barely pass Saudi exports to the US. Individually they don't even come close.
Why are wingnut's so dissappointed that we are not shipping Canada's nasty crude to Texas for them? It would end up elsewhere and only increase climate change. And it wouldn't create jobs, but like parrots, they squawk Fox News talking points that we needed this pipeline.
And protect the profits of Buffet so he can continue to move the oil by rail.
You nailed it. This is all about warren Buffet... has nothing to do with Mother Gaia or 'dirty oil' or any other such nonsense. Buffet makes the profit from moving this oil by rail and he takes some of that money and contributes to Democratic party hacks. Everyone wins... except for Americans.
Why are wingnut's so dissappointed that we are not shipping Canada's nasty crude to Texas for them? It would end up elsewhere and only increase climate change. And it wouldn't create jobs, but like parrots, they squawk Fox News talking points that we needed this pipeline.
Your argument fails the moment you mention "climate change." I'll let you figure out why.
This was written in 2012. Now, don't you and your cohorts feel woefully uninformed?
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Warren Buffett’s Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC is among U.S. and Canadian railroads that stand to benefit from the Obama administration’s decision to reject TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL oil pipeline permit.
With modest expansion, railroads can handle all new oil produced in western Canada through 2030, according to an analysis of the Keystone proposal by the U.S. State Department.
“Whatever people bring to us, we’re ready to haul,” Krista York-Woolley, a spokeswoman for Burlington Northern, a unit of Buffett’s Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire Hathaway Inc., said in an interview. If Keystone XL “doesn’t happen, we’re here to haul.”
My wife and I heard part of his speech on this today in the car, and we were laughing our asses off at his "Gas prices are lower now that they were a year ago" bit. Is he really that shortsighted?
Your argument fails the moment you mention "climate change." I'll let you figure out why.
I know exactly why it fails for you. You don't believe in climate change/science.
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