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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
What is the substantive, evidence based argument that Obama should be operating differently than he currently is?
Where is the evidence that this project will create more than a few thousand short term jobs?
Where is the evidence of how this will benefit the US economy?
Where is the evidence that this will do anything to help greenhouse gas emissions which the US has just recently pledged to reduce?
Sounds like a lot of crying that he won't just do what other people want him to do.
So far, the only argument I've seen to the contrary is that energy = good and that rail is worse than pipelines.
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You make it seem like this is a small point. Its massive. Railing the material is expensive and dangerous.
No Keystone = massive wealth transfer from Cdn Companies producing to US companies or US subs refining. That transfer happens everyday and is one of the largest transfers at prices below the actual value of the material in the history of earth. Canada media has never picked it up on reporting this but Canada is giving away its most valuable resource, mostly to America, at a value that is way lower than its actual worth.
Any other country on the planet wouldn't stand for it, but this one does, mostly because it doesn't understand what's going on.