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Originally Posted by rubecube
I don't get the whole argument that we're buying Saudi oil, so build the pipelines to stop that. The two seem unrelated to me. Unless we put in some crazy protectionist policies, we're still going to be buying oil from countries with poor human rights records regardless of our own oil production.
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Oil will be bought from who can supply it the cheapest. Really the alternative barrels are likely US shale and the whole Saudi thing is more propaganda then truth.
However when people start wanting to assign upstream GHG effects to a pipeline and compare the GHGs of the oilsands to the GHGs of Saudi oil then as part of that equation you should also include the barrels of blood and oppression required to bring you each source of oil.
Or we could approve pipelines because they are the safest, most efficient way to transport crude.