It is looking a lot like the Keystone XL pipeline is inevitable. The study released today suggests that piping the oil is no more hazardous and perhaps less hazardous than trucking it or putting it on rails. This is dirty nasty stuff. It is going to spill one way or another, and when it does, damage will be great. But unless our neighbor to the north stops raping the earth to extract it, it is going to hit the market one way or another. It is remarkably sad that we, as a species, are so dependent on something which is in increasingly short supply. And to get to it we are willing to go to great lengths of destruction. So much of what we depend on; fuel, plastics, cosmetics and fertilizers all come primarily from something which is both in short supply and destroying the environment. But here is my deal, and I look forward to your counter points, we can not fault the President for the inevitable approval of the Keystone XL pipeline. He and John Kerry can not deny the construction based upon the environmental assessment of the oil crossing the boarder through the pipeline. The dirty oil can already come across through the existing pipeline and through rail lines. The President does not have the capacity to deny the entry of this nasty stuff into our country or our economy. That would take an act of congress of monumental proportions. We have free trade with Canada and would have to re-write a whole bunch of laws to stop the flow of tar-sand oil into our country. So it is going to flow, as far as I can tell. And here we are as consumers, voters and Americans. The tar sands will continue. We will continue to consume. How are you going to react to the flow of dirty tar sand oil into our country? (Dave)
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 02:51:57 +0000
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