It will be painfully easy to tell if President Obama is going to take a serious stab at doing something about climate change in his second term: The purest, starkest test he faces will be the proposed Keystone XL pipeline from the tar sands of Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
after 25 years of predicting the end of the world due to Carbon Dioxide, nobody listens anymore.
ReplyDeleteThat's not much of a test. The Canadians are building a pipeline to the west coast so they can export oil from the sands to China.
ReplyDeleteStopping Keystone will have no impact on the ultimate global CO2 emissions.
Might as well approve it and use the oil here.
Two things: The pipeline oil is ticketed for shipment from Houston to Asia by tanker.
ReplyDeleteAnd the trans-Canadian route has been blocked, I believe.
@Dave- It's Canada's oil. We'd just be doing the heavy lifting, taking on the environmental impacts and pollution.
ReplyDeleteFind out what it takes to move and process tar sands oil. Inform yourself of the energy impacts v.s. yields.
Why does everyone think Keystone is going to free up the USA's oil dependence?
It won't.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/join_the_blockade_of_the_keystone_pipeline_20121015/
"The pipeline oil is ticketed for shipment from Houston to Asia by tanker."? Maybe you should look at a map, if you were going to ship oil to Asia from Canada you wouldn't go through Texas.
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