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With all the crap we have put up with in the middle east I say we give OPEC the gate and do all we can to ramp up our own production. We only get 10% of our energy from them, time to pull the plug. Nebraska rerouted their leg of the Keystone pipeline away from any sensitive areas. Now it’s up to Obama to sign off on it. Hopefully he will decide for jobs and energy security over the hypothetical “climate issues.”
Climate change is real. So’s our need for oil and gas. I vote we put facts on the table and come up with a decision that minimizes the former and maximizes the latter?
So this corporation wants to spend OUR tax money to pipe Canadian oil to the Gulf, where it can then be sold to China. And the PROFIT goes to whom? The American taxpayer? Yeah, right.
Re-read your sentence. Do you really want to maximize your need for oil and gas? Minimize the need and maximize local production more likely, right? But oil is a finite resource and needed for a lot more than running cars. The “Hubbard Peak” is already upon us and no oil-sands will change that (they have only become a viable option because the normal oil is running out).
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We need to find new sources of energy, worldwide. Recent legislation passed in Germany (where I’m from) freed investors in wind-energy (offshore) from the risk of delays etc. by putting the burden on the tax- and rate-payers. We weren’t thrilled but if it gets us ahead in our projects, well, so be it. By 2020 our nuclear power stations will go off the grid. No time to waste…
Texas is aggressively pushing for the pipeline. Harvard educated elite Republican commissioner Barry Smitherman (appointed by Rick Perry) refuses to take calls from PRIVATE landowners over whose land the pipeline would go. . Why do you people keep getting so easily fooled?
Thechubbard peak is a theory fom the 50’s that doesn’t take into the reality of new technology. The truth is….. Global climate alteration due to the burning of fossil fuels is also an unproven theory based on biased consensus and leftist propoganda. We are in the middle of the oil age, no one knows how much exists. Leftists base their ideals on theories that give the elites more power over the masses.
I suspect Big Oil’s strategy is the Middle East’s oil to be used up first. That makes North American oil worth more. They all know it’s going to run out some day. Better to be sitting on the last of it.
If a liberal were to quote or cite wikipedia as their sole source, you RWNJs would be screaming that it was unfounded, unsubstantiated, not credible, biased, etc., etc., etc.
But here’s a question for you, how many of the jobs for the pipeline are permanent, and how many of those jobs will be going to Americans as opposed to “guest workers” from Canada?
But don’t ya know land owner rights are only a viable argument when it serves the republicans’ agenda? And then only if the land is owned by a republican party friend?
Shoot, I’m all for alternative energy. I put a 4K solar system on top of my house. I use NG to heat water and cook with and dry laundry when the sun isn’t cooperating.
But you guys need ot get your head out of your back end.
Right now we still need oil and coal to fire industry (not that Obama gives a damn about industry). When you have rolling brownouts all over the country there will be no reason to wonder why. You allowed Obama and his green policy and EPA strategy to shut down coal for power. The replacement is NOT up to the task. When the cost of energy “necessarily skyrockets” (as it is doing) who do you think that is going to have the most effect on? First it will eliminate jobs. Yeah, jobs for the middle class. Then it will force the most vulnerable to choose. Medicine for gramps or lights to read by and heat. Yes, the elderly on fixed incomes and the single parent families on subsistence aid from the government. Food for baby Erwin or A/C in this Chicago 110 degree summer in the city heat.
Not the rich, not government, not politicians. Nope, none of the people that make the idiot rules have to abide by them. Not with Obama care, not with Gun bans and certainly not with energy consumption. The biggest supporters of cap and trade and carbon credits have the largest carbon footprints on the planet. Or have they started using some other form of fuel in Airforce one? Has Kerry moved out of his 9 million dollar mansion that uses a small city’s worth of energy each month, or has Big Al stopped jetting all over the world to push his agenda?
Nope, you need to open your eyes and see who it is you are so in love with.
Obama hates oil. I doubt he will approve this pipeline. He does not care how much it costs, in fact, he would love $5.00 a gallon gas, because he drank the Warming kool-aid. Yes, we need other things also, and if left alone, private enterprise will develop it. Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, etc., etc. did not get government support in any way. The government needs to stop sticking their long noses where they don’t belong.
Mix a snifter of Bill Mauldin, a dash of Jeff McNelly and a very large dollop of common sense, and you begin to get an idea of Lisa Benson’s considerable talent.
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Comments (53) (Please sign in to comment)
mickey1339
said, 4 months ago
With all the crap we have put up with in the middle east I say we give OPEC the gate and do all we can to ramp up our own production. We only get 10% of our energy from them, time to pull the plug. Nebraska rerouted their leg of the Keystone pipeline away from any sensitive areas. Now it’s up to Obama to sign off on it. Hopefully he will decide for jobs and energy security over the hypothetical “climate issues.”
wmconelly said, 4 months ago
Climate change is real. So’s our need for oil and gas. I vote we put facts on the table and come up with a decision that minimizes the former and maximizes the latter?
NebulousRikulau
said, 4 months ago
So this corporation wants to spend OUR tax money to pipe Canadian oil to the Gulf, where it can then be sold to China.
And the PROFIT goes to whom? The American taxpayer?
Yeah, right.
mickey1339
said, 4 months ago
@NebulousRikulau
“spend OUR tax money”
Calm down Neb. The project is being built with private money (Trans Canada Pipeline ltd), they are just waiting for permits from Obama.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_Pipeline
cubefarmer said, 4 months ago
@NebulousRikulau
Reality check; TC hasn’t gotten a penny in tax money, unlike some I might mention, they’re getting stonewalled by your boy Obama.
rightisright said, 4 months ago
The low-information dopes reelected a job-killing fraud. Then again, jobs were never their concern anyway.
MortyForTyrant said, 4 months ago
@wmconelly
Re-read your sentence. Do you really want to maximize your need for oil and gas? Minimize the need and maximize local production more likely, right? But oil is a finite resource and needed for a lot more than running cars. The “Hubbard Peak” is already upon us and no oil-sands will change that (they have only become a viable option because the normal oil is running out).
-
We need to find new sources of energy, worldwide. Recent legislation passed in Germany (where I’m from) freed investors in wind-energy (offshore) from the risk of delays etc. by putting the burden on the tax- and rate-payers. We weren’t thrilled but if it gets us ahead in our projects, well, so be it. By 2020 our nuclear power stations will go off the grid. No time to waste…
MortyForTyrant said, 4 months ago
If a President talks about plumbers I get nervous (Watergate)…
Chillbilly
said, 4 months ago
Texas is aggressively pushing for the pipeline. Harvard educated elite Republican commissioner Barry Smitherman (appointed by Rick Perry) refuses to take calls from PRIVATE landowners over whose land the pipeline would go.
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Why do you people keep getting so easily fooled?
narrowminded said, 4 months ago
@MortyForTyrant
Thechubbard peak is a theory fom the 50’s that doesn’t take into the reality of new technology. The truth is….. Global climate alteration due to the burning of fossil fuels is also an unproven theory based on biased consensus and leftist propoganda.
We are in the middle of the oil age, no one knows how much exists.
Leftists base their ideals on theories that give the elites more power over the masses.
ossiningaling said, 4 months ago
@mickey1339
I suspect Big Oil’s strategy is the Middle East’s oil to be used up first. That makes North American oil worth more. They all know it’s going to run out some day. Better to be sitting on the last of it.
TheTrustedMechanic said, 4 months ago
@mickey1339
If a liberal were to quote or cite wikipedia as their sole source, you RWNJs would be screaming that it was unfounded, unsubstantiated, not credible, biased, etc., etc., etc.
But here’s a question for you, how many of the jobs for the pipeline are permanent, and how many of those jobs will be going to Americans as opposed to “guest workers” from Canada?
TheTrustedMechanic said, 4 months ago
@Chillbilly
But don’t ya know land owner rights are only a viable argument when it serves the republicans’ agenda? And then only if the land is owned by a republican party friend?
Bruce4671 said, 4 months ago
Shoot, I’m all for alternative energy. I put a 4K solar system on top of my house. I use NG to heat water and cook with and dry laundry when the sun isn’t cooperating.
But you guys need ot get your head out of your back end.
Right now we still need oil and coal to fire industry (not that Obama gives a damn about industry). When you have rolling brownouts all over the country there will be no reason to wonder why. You allowed Obama and his green policy and EPA strategy to shut down coal for power. The replacement is NOT up to the task. When the cost of energy “necessarily skyrockets” (as it is doing) who do you think that is going to have the most effect on? First it will eliminate jobs. Yeah, jobs for the middle class. Then it will force the most vulnerable to choose. Medicine for gramps or lights to read by and heat. Yes, the elderly on fixed incomes and the single parent families on subsistence aid from the government. Food for baby Erwin or A/C in this Chicago 110 degree summer in the city heat.
Not the rich, not government, not politicians. Nope, none of the people that make the idiot rules have to abide by them. Not with Obama care, not with Gun bans and certainly not with energy consumption. The biggest supporters of cap and trade and carbon credits have the largest carbon footprints on the planet. Or have they started using some other form of fuel in Airforce one? Has Kerry moved out of his 9 million dollar mansion that uses a small city’s worth of energy each month, or has Big Al stopped jetting all over the world to push his agenda?
Nope, you need to open your eyes and see who it is you are so in love with.
coraryan
said, 4 months ago
Obama hates oil. I doubt he will approve this pipeline. He does not care how much it costs, in fact, he would love $5.00 a gallon gas, because he drank the Warming kool-aid. Yes, we need other things also, and if left alone, private enterprise will develop it. Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, etc., etc. did not get government support in any way. The government needs to stop sticking their long noses where they don’t belong.