How should we transport oil?
We already transport oil. Make no mistake, the sludge from the Tar Sands
already comes to the US. In fact, it comes
exclusively to the US, which is why it's discounted; it's oversupplied. As TransCanada said in their permit application, the purpose of KXL is to
eliminate the oversupply to US PADD II. So we already get this sludge from Alberta and we get so much of it that the price is discounted. Building KXL will eliminate that discount, which is why TransCanada wanted to build it. It was never about getting Canadian oil to US markets -that was already happening- but rather about getting Canadian oil to the Gulf
where it can be sold on the global markets for a higher price than the refineries in US PADD II currently pay.
Anyone dumb enough to support this pipeline for any reasons other than making TransCanada more profitable, is a dupe. A clueless fuckin' dupe.