Lisa Benson for January 25, 2013

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    Mickey 13  about 11 years 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.”

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    Nebulous Premium Member about 11 years 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.

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    Chillbilly  about 11 years 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..Why do you people keep getting so easily fooled?

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    lonecat  about 11 years ago

    I’m betting he’ll approve it.

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    firefighter_raven  about 11 years ago

    Funny they only mention the hypothetical jobs that might be created by the pipeline but not how many current jobs would be affected by changing how the oil is transported.

    How many trucking jobs and their support industries(many in smaller towns) will see a serious decline if not outright elimination?

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    nanellen  about 11 years ago

    The President’s job act has done nothing. They haven’t even met.

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    Mickey 13  about 11 years ago

    “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.”

    1. I was not trying to substantiate an in-depth substantiation or discussion of the Keystone pipeline. I was only trying to show Nebulous that this was not a taxpayer funded project.2. I am not a “RWNJ,” I am a Libertarian and would be happy to post links to their website to illustrate our positions. As with most that share my beliefs, I vary even from the standard tenets listed.3. I have found Wikipedia as a typically accurate for general information website and sometimes don’t use it because it can show bias from it’s writers. If you bother to follow my posting you will see that I endeavor to maintain as much of a non-partisan position as possible. Quite often I will lambaste both mainstream parties to illustrate my point.

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    Mickey 13  about 11 years ago

    “Just means all your Yankee bucks come to me rather than to the Saudis (not that that’s a bad idea…..)”

    I’d much rather give it to you than the middle east. I am much more comfortable with our “continuing relations” with Canada than “others” we trade with.

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    STLDan  about 11 years ago

    See the job numbers this month? Apparently not. Unemployment numbers are waaaaaaaaaay down. Once again a conservatives makes a statement with no root in fact at all..

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    STLDan  about 11 years ago

    Why do you think this pippeline will lower gas prices for US citizens? IT WONT, why dont you go study the issue then comment.

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    trm  about 11 years ago

    Like Obozo cares about jobs. As if.

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    Dtroutma  about 11 years ago

    What’s really funny is the biggest objection to the pipeline has actually been private landowners protesting certain sections using eminent domain to seize PRIVATE land for a PRIVATE CANADIAN corporation to flush a filthy product to Texas for refining so the product can be sent to South America, or China, NOT used in the U.S.!!

    Then of course is the fact the Administration has long ago approved most of the route.

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    Gypsy8  about 11 years ago

    The Keystone XL will be approved after a politically acceptable period of time from the election, allegedly to study the environmental impact, even though the route has been studied for years. As much as I admire a lot of what Obama has done, there is no escaping that the pipeline was frozen to appease his environmental supporters. .Similarly, Republican Nebraska governor Heineman has suddenly discovered the modified route and 57 additional safety measures will not endanger the Ogallala aquifer. The new route will by-pass the Sandhills region and cross the Ogallala slightly to the east. Of course there’s already 25,000 miles of older, less safe pipeline crossing the Ogallala, but who’s counting?.The pipeline will get built because the U.S., Canada, and the world need the oil. The Alberta Oilsands is the second largest oil deposit in the world. The Bakken deposit of North Dakota (mainly) is also world class. The XL will transport crude from both these deposits to refineries on the Gulf Coast for use mainly in southern and western U.S., where it will create jobs and act as the engine for economic development. Yes, some oil and refined products will get on to the world market and end up in China. So what – the alternative is for all the exportable oil to go west via other pipelines to the vast markets of Asia..Like it or not, the world runs on petroleum products – for heating, cooling, fertilizer, food production, chemicals, transportation, containers, building products, etc. Speculate for a moment how many of the world’s seven billion population would perish without petroleum. .I’m an environmental supporter, but I’ll only take the environmental idealists seriously when I see them give up their big autos, airplanes, gas-powered toys, mansions, heating and cooling (50% of the electricity in the U.S. is generated from much higher polluting coal), I’ll take them seriously when I see some of them rejecting funding from foreign national oil companies that would like to see oil from the Bakken and the Oilsands shut in so it would not be a competitor. Or when these same foreign interests not pay Indian bands to stand around beating drums and decrying loss of traditional hunting grounds. And would they really be prepared to let perish, say, 3.5 billion people for lack of the products produced from petroleum?.The environment must be protected and managed. But it is not as easy as shutting down one oil pipeline.

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