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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Keystone XL Pipeline
Ten Governors around the nation, along with the premier of Saskatchewan, are urging President Obama to approve construction of the rest of the Keystone XL pipeline. The administration is expected to make a decision by the end of March, and for the sake of the planet, let's hope the President says, "no way!" A new study by Oil Change International looked at the potential environmental impacts of the Keystone XL pipeline – and discovered they were worse than previously thought. As much as 16.6 million more metric tons of carbon dioxide will be pumped into the atmosphere, as a result of the Keystone XL pipeline – and new estimates show that annual carbon emission will be 13% higher than previously estimates. While Big Oil and foreign transnational corporations urge the President to approve this environmental time bomb, more rational scientists are pleading for the President to reject it. On Tuesday, 18 of the nation's top climate scientists wrote a letter to President Obama, urging him to scrap the pipeline. In order to tip the scales away from Big Oil, "we the people" need to get active and fight for the planet – because with projections showing a 5-degree increase in temperatures by the end of the century, if we sit around and do nothing – the consequences could be catastrophic.
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'Course 2 of the "scientists" were Hansen and Mann of Climategate infamy.
Yeah we need to keep all those folks out of work too!
TreeHuggers will be the death of the planet not the working people.
hoope we don't hurt any birdies. When the chineese start their cities here you won't have any say in what they can do! but lets keep the americans down .
This project could very well be done in an environmentally sound way. The jobs created would be numerous not only in the pipeline itself but with the manufacturing related jobs and a boost to other local businesses.
Obama and his admin have already said they don't care if gas goes to $10/gallon. How's that for Obama being for the poor and middle classes? Guess what? The weathly don't care. They can afford it and it will keep all the peons off the road and having to rely on public transportation.
Oversea oil companies don't care. There's enough wealthy people to keep the demand there and the profits still up with higher prices.
This all stems from a president who has never had a pot to take a piss in and he's indebted to certain big business. He's a slave boy and nothing more indebted to those with the gold and obeying them so his own pot doesn't run dry. Oh once in the while he throws them all a bone of appeasement such as a free cell phone and the peons are happy as hell to damm stupid to see the big picture.
The so called tree huggers aren't all against this. They too see the opportunity this could present for them in job opportunities as most that are serious and well educated know global warming and solar energy is nothing but a scam. Media lied and made it out to be that Romney wanted to eliminate all regulation and it would be free reign which was far far far from the truth. What Romney actually proposed was the state as opposed to fed gov't regulate the pipeline funded by EPA money which would create more local gov't jobs instead of them being so centered in Wash DC doing nothing for the local economy which they regulate.
Romney is a hugh proponent of state's rights and each state being capable of regulating and making policy for itself. Of course the media hid this fact. He proposed many of the federal govenment agencies such as the EPA, Dept of Ed, FEMA and others be streamlined, money given directly to the states and let them hire the regulators and policy makers. This would have been great for local economies and for those who long to work in certain fields but don't want make the move to Wash DC to get a job in their chosen field.
We had a goal oriented, goal driven successful "prince" in Romney but instead the voters stupidly chose the pauper who had never done anything except suck himself off the govenment teat.
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