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Who benefits the most from blocking the Keystone Pipeline?

Who benefits the most from blocking the Keystone Pipeline?

  • The American People... Because oil is the devil

    Votes: 1 14.3%
  • The Obama... Because he will be seen as all wise and caring

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Canada... Because they won't waste there money on a boondoggle pipeline

    Votes: 1 14.3%
  • China... Canada is gunna sell there oil to somebody

    Votes: 1 14.3%
  • OPEC... High oil prices makes them happy

    Votes: 1 14.3%
  • Democrats... Because Americans feel safer knowing they are protected from evil pipelines

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Republicans... Americans will see the blocking of the pipeline as political and elect Republicans

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Warren Buffett's Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC, who transport the oil now

    Votes: 3 42.9%
  • Green Energy Companys.... High energy prices "force" people to invest in solar/wind

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Unions... Because they have enough work already. 0 0%

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    7

TheGreatSatan

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I think blocking the Keystone Pipeline on environmental grounds hurts the American people. Increasing the supply of energy in the US hurts the green energy movement which our leaders are heavily invested in. If energy was cheap, there would be no need to invest zillions into compact florescent light bulbs. We all know the old style bulbs are far safer to throw away, but our leaders are heavily invested in the production of them and outlaw the production of the old bulbs. The government invests into producing electric cars, but only the rich can afford them. Not just because they are expensive to buy, but they are expensive to operate. Here in California, it gets hot and we have brown outs because everyone turns on their AC. Then the people here get huge power bills that drive people out of their homes. Energy prices here have drove the price of living through the roof, and now they want us all to plug our cars into the wall as well? This kinda insider politics is killing the American economy.
 
Well if rejecting it can help us improve the deal that is a win. From my understanding the Canadians are just using us to export the oil. It isn't necessarily going to be used in the U.S.
 
Well if rejecting it can help us improve the deal that is a win. From my understanding the Canadians are just using us to export the oil. It isn't necessarily going to be used in the U.S.

But we still lease them the land, its not like we have anything to lose. Even if it is all sold overseas, it still helps stablize the over all supply
 
I think rejecting the Keystone pipeline is just one in a long line of irresponsible policies designed to damage domestic oil production. I think the decision is indefensible and exposes Obama's claims of not wanting to rely on foreign oil for the lie that it is.
 
Canada isn't foreign? There goes that geography thing again.
 
I think rejecting the Keystone pipeline is just one in a long line of irresponsible policies designed to damage domestic oil production. I think the decision is indefensible and exposes Obama's claims of not wanting to rely on foreign oil for the lie that it is.

I think he owed his political buddies a favor
 
Canada is like America Jr. We're getting the oil from a family member

Yeah, call me crazy but I feel quite a bit more secure in our relationship with Canada than I do with the middle east.
 
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Yeah, call me crazy but I feel quite a bit more secure in our relationship with Canada than I do with the middle east.

The oil isn't staying here. We take the risks they make the money doesn't sound like a great deal.
 
The oil isn't staying here. We take the risks they make the money doesn't sound like a great deal.

Not all the oil would stay "here", but we import 10 million barrels of oil a day. I can't imagine why you think we wouldn't get it, at least some, from Canada given the opportunity.

Oh look. Pretty much what I was saying;

"Our job is to build pipelines," TransCanada CEO Russ Girling told Fox News in an interview at his downtown Calgary office building.

Girling said it's only logical for a pipeline that starts in Alberta to go through the U.S. and end up next to the large refineries on the Gulf Coast.

"I'm confident that the Keystone XL pipeline is going to get built. The U.S. imports some 10 million barrels a day of oil. It only makes sense for them to get as much as they can from their friendly northern neighbor."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...mbo-but-construction-moves-forward-in-canada/
 
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It has not been blocked btw, it has just been delayed to find a safer route. The state of Nebraska, who's groundwater resources were at risk with the existing route, benefits the most from the delay and rerouting.
 
It has not been blocked btw, it has just been delayed to find a safer route. The state of Nebraska, who's groundwater resources were at risk with the existing route, benefits the most from the delay and rerouting.

You're the one who voted for the first option, aren't you?
 
You're the one who voted for the first option, aren't you?

No, I'm the one that voted other. Nebraska benefits the most from allowing more study for a safer route.
 
BP's history is a major pipeline leak every 7 years.

Yeah bp doesn't have a MAJOR accident but every seven years in average? I live in Houston. In the last 7 we have had an oil spill the gulf and two refinery expositions where people died. All from BP.
 
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Yeah bp doesn't have a MAJOR accident but every seven years in average? I live in Houston. In the last 7 we have had an oil spill the gulf and two refinery expositions where people died. All from BP.

I don't blame Nebraska for wanting additional time to study rerouting it around underground water supplies. Makes damn good sense to me!
 
The shame, that pipeline couldve made a handful of multibillionaires more multibillions with delicious rich man tricklings for all of us.

We could also do something insanely radical like not buying a redundant set of 4-5 fighter jets to vaporise ants from the sky into slightly thinner vapors and send half a million people to college.
 
BP's history is a major pipeline leak every 7 years.

Ah hah! BP is run by Vulcans. (only true geeks like myself will get the reference, lol)
 
The shame, that pipeline couldve made a handful of multibillionaires more multibillions with delicious rich man tricklings for all of us.

We could also do something insanely radical like not buying a redundant set of 4-5 fighter jets to vaporise ants from the sky into slightly thinner vapors and send half a million people to college.

Considerations about what is best for the country in the long term, why that is un-American Sir!!!
 
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