Keystone provides a very, very small amount of jobs compared to the jobs bills killed by the GOP in the house and senate. And is environmentally very risky (how risky? We won’t know until after the deadline that the GOP artificially introduced to make sure a decision had to be made before the facts are in.) The GOP has killed Keystone, good riddance.
This is a very good representation of what Obama has been like. When it’s some nutjob solar company then it’s “We can’t wait to do a fiscal analysis and find out whether this company has a credible business model.” But when it comes to pandering to the Loony Leftists and shutting down and oil pipeline project that DOES HAVE A CREDIBLE BUSINESS plan “We need to wait and consider the facts more closely.”
We will be well served when this Doofus is out of the white house and school children learn about him as the Do Nothing President; supplanting Jimmy Carter for the title.
0bama hates oil and any other fossil-based energy source – period!!!.It would be fine with him if oil were to go up to $1,000 / barrel..‘Environmental’ poooop-laws and litigation has been used to stymie real growth and progress – that is not to say that the environment doesn’t need to be protected – really protected as opposed to just pile of BS designed to kill a project.
The only thing that Democrats have done is suggest “fairness” in the tax code, which is an undefinable term. Do you truly suppose that raping the private sector and sending even more money to Washington, DC is the key to your personal prosperity? If you really think that, then explain it all to us. We’d really like to hear how collectivists are going to create a brave new world for us.
You mean the “little people” who get hired by the same corporations Obama is trying to kill and cripple? The “little paole” who were laid off when Obama shut down offshore drilling? The “little people” who work in mining and transporting coal to power plants Obama is trying to shut down? The “little poeple” who won’t have anything to plug their electric cars into when there are power shortages as power plants shut down due to over regulation by the EPA.
I think the “little people” might be better of with the a constitutional conservative in office.
Congress had a Democratic majority the first years of Obama and they still couldn’t do anything. What about all the Dem billionaires in government:? What about all the congressmen, the senators and Presidents who never have to worry about medical since theirs is taken care of for life?
Obama and his Greenie supporters are killing the best “shovel-ready” Job program in existence!1.Keystone pipeline jobs are ready to start…at ZERO cost to taxpayers or the US treasury….which would benefit from tax revenues.2.the UNIONS want the Keystone Pipeline.3.Canadian oil would help us cut oil sales benefits to Iran and other mideast producers who use the profits to fund Jihadists to kill our American and western military and civilians and to threaten Israel.4.Service and refinery jobs would open up….adding to the thousands of pipeline jobs to put part of our large number of unemployed, underemployed and those who have given up looking for work.Obama, I hope this exposes your hypocrisy to a majority of voters in November!
Fossil fuel use promotes green-house gas (GHG) production leading to human caused alteration of global climate. It is adult, and fore ward thinking to begin moving away from petroleum and toward alternate means of energy use. This will help create clean and U.S. based jobs which are stable for decades. The pipeline job creation numbers have been inflated by it’s supporters,and will decrease markedly after the pipeline is built. Energy efficiency,smart growth,rooftop solar photovoltaics,biofuels,agriculture and building emission reduction (cement making) and electrification of transportation, all will help this country become less dependent on foreign oil, and help our economy while improving the environment.
They gave him 60 days to act on the EIS on Keystone, a document prepared by the company, a CANADIAN company, he did, he rejected it. As to jobs, the outside MOST I’ve seen is 7,000 TEMPORARY jobs, and I know pipeline projects, so guess that would be high. At the same time, the pipeline could COST over 100,000 PERMANENT JOBS! There are many refineries along the way to Texas, but besides being in hurricane country, the Texas gulf has access to shipping the refined oil, TO CHINA!! Shipping TAR SAND SLURRY, not “oil” to Texas, is just plain stupid, and a waste,well except for FOB’s, (friends of Bush) waiting to profit.
Bruce and Canbag, why not just stop the pipeline at refineries in Oklahoma (6), or even Kansas (3)?? Let’s send it to the hurricane prone Gulf, where the capacity (according to the oil company claims) is always behind already available crude? Right Kansas and Oklahoma don’t need any of those PERMANENT jobs, just the temporary ones building the line. Then there is the fact that tar sands DO have the highest pollution potential (digging, refining, and “cleaning” the final product), even without any “spills”.
Hmmm, remember when Obama caught flack for OPENING offshore (shallow water) potential zones for evaluation and leasing? That most of the Gulf IS back to leasing and production, with some safety measures REinstated? There IS a difference between “capitalist” and “Greedy bastard”- and our political right is firmly in the grasp of the latter.
ARodney over 12 years ago
Keystone provides a very, very small amount of jobs compared to the jobs bills killed by the GOP in the house and senate. And is environmentally very risky (how risky? We won’t know until after the deadline that the GOP artificially introduced to make sure a decision had to be made before the facts are in.) The GOP has killed Keystone, good riddance.
Mephistopheles over 12 years ago
This is a very good representation of what Obama has been like. When it’s some nutjob solar company then it’s “We can’t wait to do a fiscal analysis and find out whether this company has a credible business model.” But when it comes to pandering to the Loony Leftists and shutting down and oil pipeline project that DOES HAVE A CREDIBLE BUSINESS plan “We need to wait and consider the facts more closely.”
We will be well served when this Doofus is out of the white house and school children learn about him as the Do Nothing President; supplanting Jimmy Carter for the title.
DavidGBA over 12 years ago
Canada wants to export crude past the US, so what’s in it for us?
petergrt over 12 years ago
0bama hates oil and any other fossil-based energy source – period!!!.It would be fine with him if oil were to go up to $1,000 / barrel..‘Environmental’ poooop-laws and litigation has been used to stymie real growth and progress – that is not to say that the environment doesn’t need to be protected – really protected as opposed to just pile of BS designed to kill a project.
yohannbiimu over 12 years ago
The only thing that Democrats have done is suggest “fairness” in the tax code, which is an undefinable term. Do you truly suppose that raping the private sector and sending even more money to Washington, DC is the key to your personal prosperity? If you really think that, then explain it all to us. We’d really like to hear how collectivists are going to create a brave new world for us.
cwsprague over 12 years ago
You mean the “little people” who get hired by the same corporations Obama is trying to kill and cripple? The “little paole” who were laid off when Obama shut down offshore drilling? The “little people” who work in mining and transporting coal to power plants Obama is trying to shut down? The “little poeple” who won’t have anything to plug their electric cars into when there are power shortages as power plants shut down due to over regulation by the EPA.
I think the “little people” might be better of with the a constitutional conservative in office.
nanellen over 12 years ago
Congress had a Democratic majority the first years of Obama and they still couldn’t do anything. What about all the Dem billionaires in government:? What about all the congressmen, the senators and Presidents who never have to worry about medical since theirs is taken care of for life?
pirate227 over 12 years ago
Oh, are we still pretending that Keystone will create a lot of jobs and that the oil will stay in the US? LOL!
disgustedtaxpayer over 12 years ago
Obama and his Greenie supporters are killing the best “shovel-ready” Job program in existence!1.Keystone pipeline jobs are ready to start…at ZERO cost to taxpayers or the US treasury….which would benefit from tax revenues.2.the UNIONS want the Keystone Pipeline.3.Canadian oil would help us cut oil sales benefits to Iran and other mideast producers who use the profits to fund Jihadists to kill our American and western military and civilians and to threaten Israel.4.Service and refinery jobs would open up….adding to the thousands of pipeline jobs to put part of our large number of unemployed, underemployed and those who have given up looking for work.Obama, I hope this exposes your hypocrisy to a majority of voters in November!
agate1 over 12 years ago
Fossil fuel use promotes green-house gas (GHG) production leading to human caused alteration of global climate. It is adult, and fore ward thinking to begin moving away from petroleum and toward alternate means of energy use. This will help create clean and U.S. based jobs which are stable for decades. The pipeline job creation numbers have been inflated by it’s supporters,and will decrease markedly after the pipeline is built. Energy efficiency,smart growth,rooftop solar photovoltaics,biofuels,agriculture and building emission reduction (cement making) and electrification of transportation, all will help this country become less dependent on foreign oil, and help our economy while improving the environment.
agate1 over 12 years ago
www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/science.1208365/DC1 and http://ccst.us/publications/2011/2011energy.pdf
Jason Allen over 12 years ago
The notion that the solution to our energy problems is more oil is like saying finding an additional drug dealer will help solve a crack addiction.
Dtroutma over 12 years ago
They gave him 60 days to act on the EIS on Keystone, a document prepared by the company, a CANADIAN company, he did, he rejected it. As to jobs, the outside MOST I’ve seen is 7,000 TEMPORARY jobs, and I know pipeline projects, so guess that would be high. At the same time, the pipeline could COST over 100,000 PERMANENT JOBS! There are many refineries along the way to Texas, but besides being in hurricane country, the Texas gulf has access to shipping the refined oil, TO CHINA!! Shipping TAR SAND SLURRY, not “oil” to Texas, is just plain stupid, and a waste,well except for FOB’s, (friends of Bush) waiting to profit.
Dtroutma over 12 years ago
Bruce and Canbag, why not just stop the pipeline at refineries in Oklahoma (6), or even Kansas (3)?? Let’s send it to the hurricane prone Gulf, where the capacity (according to the oil company claims) is always behind already available crude? Right Kansas and Oklahoma don’t need any of those PERMANENT jobs, just the temporary ones building the line. Then there is the fact that tar sands DO have the highest pollution potential (digging, refining, and “cleaning” the final product), even without any “spills”.
petergrt over 12 years ago
Those damn capitalist!.They wont to spend $7 billion to create no jobs and screw the environment . . .!!!
Dtroutma over 12 years ago
Hmmm, remember when Obama caught flack for OPENING offshore (shallow water) potential zones for evaluation and leasing? That most of the Gulf IS back to leasing and production, with some safety measures REinstated? There IS a difference between “capitalist” and “Greedy bastard”- and our political right is firmly in the grasp of the latter.