Just how out of touch is socialist Barack Obama? Even though 70%+ of the American people support the job-creating, pro-American Keystone XL pipeline, Obama delayed the decision. Thousands of American workers won't get a job thanks to Obama's un-American and stupid decision. Instead, more oil will be shipped by train, which leads to more pollution and more spills. And that oil's going to go to China instead of the USA. Barack Obama's decision today hurts the lives of average Midwestern Americans. Obama won't listen to the American people, and 2014 is a good time to send a clear message to him.
STOP IT!!!!!!!!!
Keystone's got Zero to do with "energy independence". Perhaps Fox Noise tells you it somehow brings product to the pumps in Dubuque. It doesn't. Not even remotely close. The oil biz just doesn't work that way.
What Keystone
does do is bring raw material to Houston, where it can be loaded on ships to facilitate energy
dependence in China and India. Because that's where the money is. What it
does do is cut costs for the Exxons so they can increase profits, because, you know, there just isn't enough of that. What it
does in effect is enable Big Oil to say to We the People, "here -- hold this up while I make big bucks on it, and whatever you do don't drop it or you'll have a mess".
Nuttin' like knowing what yer talking about before creating a thread. You guys who buy the whole "drill here drill now" malarkey hook line and sinker still haven't got it through your head that "we" don't drill for oil --- oil companies drill for oil, and their loyalty is to shareholders, not whatever nation they're based in. But they'll be happy to sell you the kool-aid that a pipeline somehow finds its way to your local pump.
Happy motoring.
Exxon doesn't own any of the mineral rights in the Alberta oil sands. According to Wikipedia, the following companies have an interest there:
Syncrude,
Suncor,
CNRL,
Shell,
Total,
Imperial Oil,
Petro Canada,
Devon,
Husky,
Statoil,
Nexen
None of these are American companies.
Some of the following "partners" are American companies, but they only provide logistical support:
Chevron
Marathon
ConocoPhillips
BP
Oxy
The reason for sending the oil to Houston is so it can be refined there. Texas has refineries equipped to handle the heavy crude that comes out of the oil sands. Canada doesn't have sufficient refinery capacity of this nature to process all the oil recovered from the oil sands.
So basically, as always, your claims are pure bullshit. You're just spewing manure into the air.