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The House already has proposed a bill - that the Senate won't take up ( surprise ) - to speed up the process of giving the green light to the Keystone pipeline project. A pipeline from Canada to Texas, which would create at least 50,000 jobs.
Obama is being urged by Democratic leaders to postpone any decision until after the 2012 election. Obama will likely remain partisan and do what they tell him to do.
The House already has proposed a bill - that the Senate won't take up ( surprise ) - to speed up the process of giving the green light to the Keystone pipeline project. A pipeline from Canada to Texas, which would create at least 50,000 jobs.
Obama is being urged by Democratic leaders to postpone any decision until after the 2012 election. Obama will likely remain partisan and do what they tell him to do.
Jobs are priority #1
Yeah, Right.
GREEN jobs are number one to Obama. This pipeline is for something other than green. He doesn't know that we have all kinds of shorter pipelines running all over this country and they don't all carry refined products, either.
Environmentalists are trying in vein to reign in Obama's attention on the matter. I'd surmise that they've had his attention all along....but unfortunately for the EnviroNazi's it's an election year and they simply do not wield the clout to accomplish anything substantial. At the most basic level, Obama will drag is his feet and take no action at all in order to appease them. At the higher level, Obama will approve it and everyone but the EN's will celebrate.
Behold Obama's laser focus on destroying jobs by pandering to his far left base.
Keystone
Boeing
But really, this country doesn't need the 150K+ jobs created by those two projects alone right? What is that, 3 months worth of "jobs created" by the UE statistics? An entire quarter of a year's employment?
I mean really, it is not as though Obama is going to try to make the GOP look evil by the US being to broke to hand out more extended UE benefits to the 99+ weekers, right? He'll gin up more voted by demonizing unemployment levels then actually allowing the private sector to create real jobs.
Further development of a foreign country's toxic tar sands which have been linked to cancer spikes, forest destruction, loss of wildlife, and climate-disrupting pollution. A pipeline that would cut across America's most important agricultural aquifer and, when the inevitable spill occurs, cause devastation to farmers and groundwater drinking supplies.
If Obama nixes this ( and screws Americans who are unemployed from 50,000 jobs ) the Canadian company will point this pipeline toward the Pacific Ocean. All this oil has to be sold.
They Will Sell It To CHINA.
Shouldn't the U.S. buy more oil from one of it's friends and reduce it's dependency on the Middle East?
If Obama nixes this ( and screws Americans who are unemployed from 50,000 jobs ) the Canadian company will point this pipeline toward the Pacific Ocean. All this oil has to be sold.
They Will Sell It To CHINA.
Shouldn't the U.S. buy more oil from one of it's friends and reduce it's dependency on the Middle East?
Absolutely. Most of us actually get this. But, not the far left. It is their intention to absolutely destroy the USA. We need energy independence as a matter of national security and that requires every source we can utilize.
Further development of a foreign country's toxic tar sands which have been linked to cancer spikes, forest destruction, loss of wildlife, and climate-disrupting pollution. A pipeline that would cut across America's most important agricultural aquifer and, when the inevitable spill occurs, cause devastation to farmers and groundwater drinking supplies.
Just say NO to the Keystone Pipeline.
(Save the flaming -- I'm a Liberal, remember?)
Spills are not necessarily "inevitable," and the spills that are pipeline related generally are contained in self-containment systems.
I like water, wildlife, and forests too, but all the emotional strings that always come with the environmental argument really have no bearing on the truth.
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