Actually that is what they need to do. The Keystone pipeline really doesn’t do much for the country. Perhaps if there was a real sweetener it might become an attractive proposition.
You DO realize, don’t you, that the Keystone Oil is to be shipped to Louisiana where it will be shipped and SOLD on the international market? The USA will have to line up to buy it just like everyone else. So much for the “national security” argument. Jobs? Yeah, a few thousand, for the duration of the construction, then a few dozen full-time jobs. I’m with Ted Lind.
Sounds wasteful to hire thousands of workers to do a pipeline. A self-driving pipe-fitter robot could do the same job more dependably and could be built by the companies that build the oil pipe inspection robots. For example:http://www.azorobotics.com/equipment-category.aspx?cat=54
The pipeline isn’t the real problem, it’s the destruction of vast acreage at the source of that garbage, and the export of the filthy product, after all that waste is left behind from refining for export. With Inhofe in the Senate, and Hastings in the House, and changes within the continuing resolution, and Defense Appropriations Act riders to destroy every element of the environment, and destroy every environental law since Nixon that HAS led to progress, Americans are facing the worst of all possible scenarios for our future. Screw posterity, what have they ever done for me, is now going to be the guiding philosophy, from “corporate government”. (The worst money can buy.)
Theodore E. Lind Premium Member over 9 years ago
Actually that is what they need to do. The Keystone pipeline really doesn’t do much for the country. Perhaps if there was a real sweetener it might become an attractive proposition.
olcott.rick over 9 years ago
You DO realize, don’t you, that the Keystone Oil is to be shipped to Louisiana where it will be shipped and SOLD on the international market? The USA will have to line up to buy it just like everyone else. So much for the “national security” argument. Jobs? Yeah, a few thousand, for the duration of the construction, then a few dozen full-time jobs. I’m with Ted Lind.
superposition over 9 years ago
Sounds wasteful to hire thousands of workers to do a pipeline. A self-driving pipe-fitter robot could do the same job more dependably and could be built by the companies that build the oil pipe inspection robots. For example:http://www.azorobotics.com/equipment-category.aspx?cat=54
Dtroutma over 9 years ago
The pipeline isn’t the real problem, it’s the destruction of vast acreage at the source of that garbage, and the export of the filthy product, after all that waste is left behind from refining for export. With Inhofe in the Senate, and Hastings in the House, and changes within the continuing resolution, and Defense Appropriations Act riders to destroy every element of the environment, and destroy every environental law since Nixon that HAS led to progress, Americans are facing the worst of all possible scenarios for our future. Screw posterity, what have they ever done for me, is now going to be the guiding philosophy, from “corporate government”. (The worst money can buy.)
Dtroutma over 9 years ago
BTW: tar sands are also about as far as you can get away from “light sweet crude”.