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Do you have a non-partisan opinion as to why Obama is stalling on this? A reason, not a rant please. Even if you disagree with the reason - what is the actual reason (in Obama's view)? Do you know? Does anybody?
I do. It's because Americans now want something for nothing, believing it will just magically appear and that someone owes it to them. They want what that oil provides, they want the jobs of it and they want economic wealth. But they want it all for free.
So they don't want the bother of a pipeline or risks of one. So Obama has - again - sold Americans that they can have something for nothing - to give up the oil and still have it.
The radical "greenies" will explain "oil is a global market," so it will come back here anyway after refined elsewhere - and those jobs elsewhere. Then we only risk mass environmental damage of a tanker sinking, have to pay markups for loading it, shipping to that foreign refinery, pay to load it back on a ship, and pay to off load it back here. So no jobs. Twice the price.
Of course, the foreign country it is going to is on another planet, so if there is an oil spill on their land it will not affect earth - and since all waters of the oceans continuously are flowing away from the United States, no oil tanker sinking could possibly harm us. Rather, it would float on top of the ocean flowing until it fell off the end of the flat earth into space.
Those are the reasons.