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Obama Explains Why He "Rejected" Keystone XL Pipeline Days After Transcanada Withdraws Application - Live Feed

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After seven long years, and following the State Department's denial of TransCanada’s request to suspend its permit application, the Obama Administration, according to The Wall Street Journal, is set to reject the Keystone XL Pipeline (the controversial project to link oil sands in Alberta to U.S. Gulf of Mexico refineries). Speaking from The White House shortly, President Obama is expected to cite the urgency of climate change as a key reason behind his decision (though is unlikely to name the biggest winner from this decision..).

 

Live Feed (Obama is due to speak at 1145ET)...

 

If you liked your Canadian Oil Sands, you can keep it...

 

As The Wall Street Journal reports,

The Obama administration will reject the Keystone XL pipeline, according to people familiar with the decision, capping a politically charged review of the oil project that lasted more than seven years and escalated into a broader debate on energy, climate change and the economy.

 

President Barack Obama is expected to cite the urgency of climate change as a key reason behind his decision, these people said.

 

Mr. Obama, who has made environmental issues a centerpiece of his second term, had signaled deep misgivings about the pipeline project as he pursued an expansive agenda aimed at fighting climate change. He said repeatedly that the pipeline would create few jobs and would fail to lower gasoline prices, while exacerbating climate change.

And previously noted,

Interviews suggest TransCanada fumbled its U.S. push for the project by pursuing a politically naive public-relations strategy over the past seven years. Those interviewed said TransCanada followed a playbook that no longer works in Washington, where regulatory approvals can get caught up in ideological conflicts.

 

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders urged President Barack Obama to reject the pipeline ahead of the Paris climate talks set for later this month, The Hill reports.

And the winner is...

 

With BNSF!!

 

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Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:06 | 6758103 astoriajoe
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You can't fire me! I Quit!

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:07 | 6758111 LowerSlowerDela...
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More good news for China, bad news for USA.  Thanks, Obama.  You are doing your job...

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:14 | 6758141 Tonald J Drump
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>>>>  POTUS:lying douche

>>>>  POTUS:patriot

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:16 | 6758154 thesonandheir
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Fuck the stupid cunt, Trump will build it after he gets in anyway.

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:19 | 6758167 Surviver22
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Obama will not finish his second term! This will scare millions! Current Events Linked to Ancient Biblical Prophecy!

http://bit.ly/1HJ8QEk

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:28 | 6758207 LowerSlowerDela...
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Are you going to keep posting this spam after Obama finishes his second term or will you switch to spamming about the next president?

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:47 | 6758272 Pinto Currency
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The urgency of fraud, not climate change:

http://www.scmsa.eu/archives/SCM_RC_2015_08_24_EN.pdf

 

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:58 | 6758320 pods
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Climate change crosses borders. The best way yet for them to implement a better world government.

pods

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 13:04 | 6758331 TruxtonSpangler
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Dont forget Bill Gates, huge rail holder as well. Big Democrat donor. (Son of William H Gates, Sr - big into the American Eugenics Society with Margaret Sanger)

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.F...

http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.575.06.Am3-ead.xml

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 13:06 | 6758356 Bilderberg Member
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Why did Obama say no to the deal?  Because the Teleprompter told him to say no

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 13:23 | 6758438 two hoots
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Woe to banks tied to tar sands:

Read more: Banks Ranked and Spanked on the Tar Sands | Rainforest Action Network http://www.ran.org/banks-ranked-and-spanked-tar-sands-0#ixzz3qjRajN3d

 

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 14:17 | 6758674 undertow1141
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Sounds like a reason for Canada to excuse itself from NAFTA. See how Omonkey likes that.

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 20:58 | 6760262 Laowei Gweilo
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time to sell to china

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 13:08 | 6758362 binomial
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I don't usually login anymore since everything seems so discouraging lately - but I had to thank you for the link to the article!

Their whitepaper is an amazingly comprehensive work, 195 pages!

best regards ...

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 14:57 | 6758964 Svendblaaskaeg
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Thank's for the link!

Sun, 11/08/2015 - 15:16 | 6764636 LibertarianMenace
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@Pinto: Is that a bird, a plane, or real mathematicians to the rescue? And French, to boot! Meanwhile, the fools over at Philly's SIAM are groveling and falling all over each other to see how their membership can be most helpful to the climate change equivalent of SPECTRE.

 

Here's all anyone needs to know.

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:47 | 6758285 Clint Liquor
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Corn prices in the US are below farmer cost. Brazil is importing corn to the east coast of the US because it cost too much to ship by rail and the railroads are tied up shipping oil. Ag imports to the US the highest ever this year. This and the USD are killing agriculture and all the related industry.

 

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:56 | 6758314 iinthesky
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How does a big pipe on the ground cause global coolarming? or is climate disruption now? Whatever.. how's that happen?

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 13:01 | 6758343 pods
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Funds were diverted for expansion of the pipelines spidering out of DC.  You know, the bullshit pipeline.  Not enough capacity.

pods

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 13:50 | 6758547 Pabloallen
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More to the point is they build it as cheeply as they can get away with and let it leak and pollute the entire country and only fix it where they are loosing the most not  killing the most......  

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 14:57 | 6758969 Took Red Pill
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Obama's rejection of it had nothing to do with the environment.  His buddy Buffet had his ear with his trains carrying the oil. Plus, oil prices are so low the tar sands oil wouldn't be profitable.

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 23:29 | 6760632 gladius17
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Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:20 | 6758170 hannah
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the oii is already flowing to texas city....what is the point of this?

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:25 | 6758193 Bay of Pigs
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Exactly, I said the same below. This is pure propaganda for the Climate Change fucktards pushing a false agenda.

http://www.transcanada.com/oil-pipelines.html

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:19 | 6758158 SethDealer
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obama is an idiot

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 13:23 | 6758439 cosmictrainwreck
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No dispute....but I sure wish MDB would weigh in on this, to give us the proper perspective. MDB, where are you? 

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:28 | 6758182 FireBrander
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Good thing Hillary was against it; or for it? Or was she for it, then read it, then was for it, but decided later to be against it?

Of fuck, what does it matter...

~~~~~~~

I check in on Bernie's facebook page now and then...read through the comments...very lefty people hell bent on Bernie...Hillary is NOT their second choice...anybody but Hillary seems to be the attitude.

I said Bernie's "We're tired of Hillary's emails" comment was a HUGE BLUNDER...and, FINALLY, yesterday, Bernie begins back peddling away from that comment.

Bernie Sanders Now Says There Are 'Valid Questions' About Hillary's Damn Emails

http://www.mediaite.com/online/bernie-sanders-now-says-there-are-valid-q...

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:40 | 6758258 Bay of Pigs
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Sanders talks a good game on some issues but in reality he is just another socialist stooge who understands almost nothing about economics.

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:55 | 6758305 Raymond_K._Hessel
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I'm finding one argument alluring - Sanders + Congress = gridlock = better for us than anyone else + Congress + AIPAC/MIC/Wall Street = more of the same.

Not too much Sanders could do on his own as President in the socialist vein, but foreign policy wise, he may very well be the best option [if you like the idea of the US not acting as World Police or Israel's henchman, anyway].

I disagree on a fundamental level with Sanders as to the role of government and the primordial locus of 'rights' being something attendant to being a human individual, not a function of "society" or the state - etc etc.  but - he's been saying the same thing for decades, he's not for sale, and he is a far more honorable man than anyone else running for office. 

Trump's rhetoric hits all the succulent cuts of red meat, but many of his ideas are sophomoric and he's changed positions, and parties so often its hard to take him seriously as a man of conviction. 

He's still much better than Rubio and Cruz and Carson - who are all fucking terrifying.


As for not understanding economics - well, since we are where we are because of people who *do* 'understand' "economics"  -why not try someone who doesn't as Chief Executive?  Maybe not knowing "economics" will be a practical benefit, since understanding "economics" has meant a quasi-depression and most new wealth going to 37 people.

 

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:59 | 6758326 11b40
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Yep, we need a better clas of outsiders.

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 13:19 | 6758366 piratepiet2
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A view by a little Flemish guy (still stuck in the Flemish clay):

I watched Bernie Sanders on the Charlie Rose show.  

Disregarding his ideas, which might be good, I am convinced by my intuition that this man will never become president of the US.

He lacks this almost nondefinable aura of a natural leader.  It is hard to believe his backers do not see that.  Is Sanders part of a tactic to provide Clinton with some cover so she can move to the left without looking extreme ?  (dixit Clinton : "you can never be more extreme than the next extremist"). 

Can anybody clarify?  Haberman?

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 13:20 | 6758418 booboo
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You are spot on, Sanders will bring the violent radical progressives out hoping for Colonel Sanders and will decide to stick around after he crashes and Berns.

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 18:54 | 6758496 JuliaS
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Hard to look at the image without picturing this:

http://s13.postimg.org/n9hcq53lj/buffet.jpg

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:09 | 6758105 Kirk2NCC1701
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When will Qatar withdraw its Pipeline Application with the US MIC?

Maybe they need a little creative incentives?  Like linking up their pipeline to Iran's.

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:07 | 6758106 Raymond_K._Hessel
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What a fucking cunt.

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:08 | 6758113 autofixer
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Teh demoncrats just wanted to say "NO!"  Obamao only wanted to say it closer to the election and Trans Canada called him on it.

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:09 | 6758116 insanelysane
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Need to move the news cycle from ISIS and the hospital massacre in Afghanistan.  .gov keeps things like Keystone on the shelf for just such occasions.

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:15 | 6758143 Tonald J Drump
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yea that hospital massacre sure went away pretty effin quick, huh ?    

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:10 | 6758118 Winston Churchill
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Funny way to suck his limp dick.

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:17 | 6758139 SSRI Junkie
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we must reduce our dependence on foreign oil. the only good foreign oil is imported by buffet rail inc

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:17 | 6758146 QQQBall
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Yeah they used those airborne gattling guns on the hospital. as well as shelling it.... I love that the report completed on the hospital massacre... the report will detial who gets compensation and how much...  'cause if you over-pay the victims familes, there will be less outrage when the other report comes out quietly in 6 to 12 months.

 

Obomber is a fuck-up 1st class

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:24 | 6758191 astoriajoe
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I still don't get the payment for deaths thing. 

If there is a payment involved, does it imply culpability, as in this case? 

Is that why certain families of dead people in America get a payout? Not those brown folks in Chicago that get shot by other brown folks, but those involved in the types of  mass shootings that show up on CNN? 

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:16 | 6758150 SoDamnMad
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Now sell off the strategic oil reserve, let Warren buy a couple oil companies and have Iran mine the entrance to the Suez Canal.  (Maybe Putin will plant some bombs on Warren's trains set to go off when they are passing through major cities)

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:16 | 6758155 madcows
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Thou shalt not have cheap oil!  OR JOBS!  F You!  Sincerley, BHO.

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:19 | 6758160 gcjohns1971
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We reject tangible economic benefit in preference to unproven climate theory whose authors will not release their base data ... even under subpoena.

 

What is interesting here is that the data of what is sold as science is being hidden.

I learned in my 8th grade science class that the DATA IS THE SCIENCE... the conclusion is just an inevitable consequence of properly collected data.

THAT IS WHAT THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD MEANS.

But apparently, we've redefined the term "science" to mean "Fatwa issued by University-approved bureaucrat wearing white robe".

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:37 | 6758242 schnydz
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What do you know, Gov gets involved with science and it all goes to shit

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 13:16 | 6758403 sharonsj
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What tangible benefits?  It's Canadian oil and the owners testified before Congress that the oil was destined to be sold to China and India--not the U.S.  Therefore it cannot make America "energy independent."

The pipeline is being built with steel from China and Russia.  No American steel is being used.

Employment is temporary.  Permanent workers number between 20 and 30.

97% of the world's climate scientists say global warming is real, but I guess you know better....

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 13:23 | 6758432 Clinteastwood
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Naiive.

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 15:16 | 6759081 Itchy and Scratchy
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Do you believe everything Media Matter drums up ??? Or are you Media Matters?

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 15:42 | 6759251 Itchy and Scratchy
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They depend on reliable data like 1000 year old tree rings and 5000 year old ice cores all conducted by newby SOCIAL SCIENTISTS!! Nothing is every double blind back tested because it often does not provide favorable results! Progessive socialists are happy to destroy scientific methodology in the name of the 'collective' good! Nothing new about the current crop of 'visionaries' - simply a redux of USSR, Cuba, North Korea, Communist China, Venezula, etc etc! A sad and pathetic crew to say the least!  

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:19 | 6758161 orangegeek
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Buffet kickback to barry for oil by train.

 

Time to blow up/derail a few more trains.

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:21 | 6758175 Bay of Pigs
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WTF? Am I the only who knows the rest of the pipeline was built and is running ? The XL link was the only part not built.

http://www.transcanada.com/oil-pipelines.html

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:54 | 6758307 SSRI Junkie
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bop, i can't find any statistics as to whether any oil is actually flowing even though the system is up and running and contracts are in place. i know there are two pipelines, but finding any oil flow stats are eluding me..got anything?

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 16:00 | 6759346 Bay of Pigs
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No, I don't have any stats on the amount of oil flowing but they are making lots of money on the pipelines.

http://www.transcanada.com/news-releases-article.html?id=1998438&t=

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:21 | 6758176 RadioactiveRant
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It must be nice living in Buffetts pocket.

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 15:31 | 6759204 Itchy and Scratchy
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I think he's firmly buried up his old smelly and wrinkled butt hole!

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:22 | 6758183 Rikky
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Climate change is the biggest crock of shit foisting on the American people and the world since McCarthy convinced us that everyone was harboring a Communist.

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:39 | 6758257 jamochavez
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Just another thing to feed the decaying moral of the american narccist- like facebook climate change lets people feel like they mean anything or people give a shit about them--as in man/I can have material change on this earth's climate 

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 15:26 | 6759174 Itchy and Scratchy
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Today's social media driven youth all fall into the socialist meme ... just as long as they get 'likes' on facebook! 

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:23 | 6758184 Bill of Rights
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15 More months to go to continue destroying this nation. Morale will be so low before this cunts term is up no one will care.

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:23 | 6758188 Jack Daniels Esq
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Fuck the dumb black muslim nigga - go back to Kenya

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:24 | 6758192 Everybodys All ...
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Obama is such an arrogant asshole to begin with so cut him a break on this one. He simply can't help it.

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:26 | 6758198 cn13
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I never thought I would hate a President more than I do with George "The Conqueror" Bush.

But this lazy piece of sh&t Obama is making me rethink my hatred.

I can't figure out whose side he is on.

How far we have fallen!

Sad days for Amerika.

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:41 | 6758263 FreeShitter
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They get worse with each one....every year for america it gets worse and has been for decades.

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:43 | 6758268 wmbz
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"I can't figure out whose side he is on".

~ He is on the side of hate the USA first!

The SOB does not like one thing about the country and has done his best to bring it down, and he has.

A no class lowlife piece of shit!

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:41 | 6758262 E.F. Mutton
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Excellent jobs report the same day as the pipeline is shitcanned.  I don't believe in coincidences, especially with the Magic Kenyan.

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:46 | 6758277 Anopheles
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I have to say that TransCanada had a great strategy when they realized a number of years ago, that Keystone XL would never go through.  They let that one piece of pipeline take all the political and evnironazi "heat" and they went and built thousands of miles of other pipelines with no opposition. 

And as a grand finale, they're making Obama look like a dick. 

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 13:43 | 6758515 Billy Sol Estes
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They finished the portion in Texas 2 years ago.

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:47 | 6758282 luckylogger
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Well..... I guess it takes alot more people to ship oil by rail than by pipeline..

It burns more energy, so that should help the oil companies....

It will hurt the poor guys freezing to death up north..

But hey we can get it from venezuala oil sands just as well..........

Guess it is clean oil if it is made from oil sands in venezuala...

And dirty if it comes from Canada....

Its the same FUKING SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can anybody explain any of this to me???????

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 13:08 | 6758364 Beatscape
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It's not logical.  This is pure 100% ideological and political grandstanding on a false premise.

The tar sands oil will come from Canada via railroad spewing more C02 and burning more energy than a passive pipeline.  Therefore, if he truly wanted to reduce energy consumption, he would approve the pipeline.  We have entered a world where true scientific analysis and logical thinking is discouraged and forbidden.

 

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 16:00 | 6759345 Itchy and Scratchy
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It makes extortion of the taxpayer much easier! 

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 14:57 | 6758611 piratepiet2
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dt  

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:47 | 6758284 Raymond_K._Hessel
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you know what else exacerbates "climate change" - the sort of carbon footprint having well hundreds of bases all over the world has - oh and the depleted uranium munitions are likely worse, when you factor in water and soil pollution on top of physical ailments and genetic defects, are probably worse in a month than this pipeline would be in decades of operation.

The fact this asshole lies is one thing - all politicians do it, fine.

But the way in which people will believe it - *that* is truly alarming.

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:57 | 6758319 Salsa Verde
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Who cares what the blathering sock puppet has to say:  Anybody with an IQ larger than their shoe size knows Valerie Jarrett is the REAL president and writes the copy for the teleprompters.

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 12:58 | 6758323 Shizzmoney
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Cliffs: the price of oil collapsed.  

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 13:03 | 6758334 Dr. Engali
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Obama and Buffet are both douches, but I believe Warren sold out of the rails.

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 15:33 | 6759213 Itchy and Scratchy
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If he didn't then there's no bid for them!

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 13:13 | 6758388 Schwarze Tulpe
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The biggest winner of this decision is Venezuela.

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 13:26 | 6758450 Vlad the Inhaler
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Yeah let's build a pipeline across America to ship Canadian oil to China.

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 15:43 | 6759151 Itchy and Scratchy
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Don't be an idiot for all your life honey. Love, Mom

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 13:41 | 6758491 Billy Sol Estes
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Half of it is already built. Government jackboots used eminent domain here in Texas to confiscate private property to build it.

 

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 13:51 | 6758556 BouncingCat
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We'd be better off if Obama merely flipped a coin to make decisions. His way makes him wrong on everything.

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 15:59 | 6759340 Itchy and Scratchy
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Every measure is precise and calculated. Nothing is left up to chance or liberty! The founding fathers would be loading up their long rifles!

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 14:41 | 6758861 roadhazard
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What took him so long. That heavy crude was not For Americans it was for Big Oil to make a buck on as it shipped out the Gulf.

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 15:58 | 6759331 Itchy and Scratchy
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And thats exactly why this extremely valuale tollgate should have been permitted - or did they not cover that in your liberal arts studies courses?

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 15:32 | 6759102 Itchy and Scratchy
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Nice thing to do to your biggest and friendliest trading partner! Hope that old decaying yukelee playing asshole is happy! Don't these paracites ever die or what?

Fri, 11/06/2015 - 19:21 | 6760037 venturen
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he is waiting for his benefactors to take ownership before approving....corzine, soros, dimon and blankfein will take ownership a fee will paid to the Clinton Slush Fund...DEAL DONE

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