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Obama vetoes Keystone XL pipeline

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Keystone XL Pipeline VETOAnd with that, he attempts to guarantee that Tom Steyer will fund his library when he has moved on from the presidency.

Keystone XL REAL BlockageMr Obama has made his choice, and he has made it loud and large.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defying the Republican-run Congress, President Barack Obama rejected a bill Tuesday to approve construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, wielding his veto power for only the third time in his presidency.

He wants you to suffer at the pump, and he wants to kill oil, to kill coal, to kill any potential energy independence of the United States of America.

Keystone XL GraphicWhat is this about?

Why would this be?  MotherJones weighs in.

Because Mr Obama still believes that the United States of America needs to be brought down a number of pegs.  The US is too big for its britches.  It is too colonialistic, too strong, too powerful.

He favors Blood Oil and Conflict Oil over that which we can bring up from our own soil, and that which we can acquire by dint of the construction of a pipeline from Alberta to the Gulf Coast.

Environmentalists bleat that allowing the Keystone XL is akin to allowing the Trans-Alaskan pipeline.  Oh yeah.  The pipeline that hasn’t suffered even one break or catastrophe in its entire existence.  Except by those persons who wished to do it harm = Leftists.

It’s back to the basics for Obama.  He hated that your gas prices went down the past three months, and is pleased that they are now rising.  He wants to hurt you and force you into energy paradigms that aren’t viable but “sound” good and support emotive arguments.  He has no primary substitute for oil, but that means nothing when you own the American Media Maggots.

Samsung 02-2015 213That must be why there are so many pristine Nissan Leafs for sale at every CarMax across the United States.  And why there are so many Smart cars that never got sold.

Samsung 02-2015 216The Nissan Leaf is a piece of crap.  The Smart car is a piece of crap.  The Smart car requires premium fuel.  No one tells you that.

Make no mistake.

Obama wants to make you hurt.

BZ

 

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Sierra Club Says Saudis Their ‘Best Ally’ in Fighting Keystone

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House of Saud

[The new Best Friends of the Sierra Club. Eco-Fascists, anyone?]

Sounds kind of strange to you?

It sounded kind of strange to me.

Although, it would be a “given” that the Sierra Club would oppose Keystone XL pipeline, which would help to make the US even more independent from Blood Oil and Conflict Oil directly from the Middle East and other trouble nations.

From the WashingtonFreeBeacon.com:

Sierra Club: Saudi Arabia ‘Our Best Ally’ in Keystone Fight

by Lachlan Markay

Leading environmentalist group heaps praise on Arab monarchy’s attempt to undermine U.S. oil production.

Saudi Arabia’s efforts to “drown” American energy producers make the oil-rich theocracy a crucial ally of the environmentalist movement, according to a leading green group.

The House of Saud, the kingdom’s royal family, is “our best ally in the fight against Keystone XL,” according to Paul Rauber, the senior editor of Sierra, the bi-monthly magazine published by the Sierra Club, a leading environmentalist group.

President Barack Obama has threatened to veto legislation expediting approval of the pipeline. However, Rauber said that the government of Saudi Arabia has done more to scuttle Keystone.

“Environmentalists are depending on President Barack Obama’s veto pen to block the project—at least until the State Department issues its final ruling in the matter,” Rauber wrote. “But we have another, even more potent ally in the fight: the House of Saud.”

As a leading member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Saudi Arabia has strongly opposed cuts in production that would buoy the plummeting price of crude oil.

The idea is to make oil so cheap that American producers can’t extract it economically. The current surge in U.S. oil production is a result of expensive extraction techniques—hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling—that could be cost-prohibitive if oil prices fall much further.

According to Rauber, OPEC’s efforts may also render the Keystone pipeline moot by forcing prices too low for the expensive refining process of heavy Canadian “oil sands” crude.

We already know that Russia, Iran and Venezuela are claiming that the drop in global oil prices are the result of a vast American conspiracy.  Russia, Iran and Venezuela depend mightily on the profits from oil sales and need it to keep their countries functioning and keep their current leaders in power.  Gwynne Dyer in Hurriet of Turkey calls this strategy “fiendishly clever” on the part of the US.

There’s one problem.  Russia, Iran and Venezuela aren’t glimpsing the big picture.  And Saudi Arabia is big enough, wealthy enough and canny enough to play the Long Game.

The Long Game is this: Saudi Arabia hasn’t slowed oil production on its end for a very important reason.  The US is now the world’s leading producer of oil and could become even bigger.  Fracking was the difference.  But to make fracking possible, oil has to come in at roughly $85 a barrel in order to make the investment worthy.  Fracking is complicated and expensive.

All Saudi Arabia has to do, to keep a chokehold on fracking, is not turn the faucet off or down.  Keep up production.  Oil falls below $85 and fracking becomes unprofitable for companies in the US.  Workers have already been laid off and some wells shut down.

The winner?  Saudi Arabia.  They can afford to sit while a few billion dollars percolate.

And?  Oh yeah.  That cheap oil?

Gonna go up again.  Mark my words.

In the meantime: a tip of the fedora to the good, old Sierra Club.

Fucktards.

BZ

 

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Keystone XL Pipeline: a surprise initial approval, to the chagrin of Leftists

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Canadian & US Oil PipelinesCanadian and US oil pipelines.

From the AP.org:

Keystone XL oil pipeline clears significant hurdle

By MATTHEW DALY
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The long-delayed Keystone XL oil pipeline cleared a major hurdle toward approval Friday, a serious blow to environmentalists’ hopes that President Barack Obama will block the controversial project running more than 1,000 miles from Canada through the heart of the U.S.

I must admit: I hadn’t anticipated this turn of events.

Republicans and business and labor groups have urged Obama to approve the pipeline to create thousands of jobs and move further toward North American energy independence. The pipeline is also strongly supported by Democrats in oil and gas-producing states, including Sens. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Mark Begich of Alaska and Mark Pryor of Arkansas. All face re-election this year and could be politically damaged by rejection of the pipeline. Republican Mitt Romney carried all three states in the 2012 presidential election.

Keystone XL Pipeline Proposed RouteFor years America has provided mere lip music to the concept of an energy-independent nation.  We sit on some of the largest fields of yet-untapped natural gas.  We sit on the Bakken oil fields.  Oddly enough, our largest export these days is refined fuel — but not the unrefined oil.

We will not achieve any form of so-called “energy independence” if we continue to rely upon what I term “Conflict Oil” from nation-states that primarily dislike the United States intensely, such as ME countries, Venezuela, Nigeria, Angola and Iraq.

There is no perfect solution to oil, and neglecting to make a logical, cogent and smooth transition to other forms of energy is ridiculous.  Leftists and Mr Obama expect and want that oil shall be immediately dismissed and shunted aside.  That simply cannot be done, because the other forms of energy and much more unreliable.

Wind turbines are high pressure/low pressure dependent, and kill birds.  Solar eats valuable land and must be cleaned regularly with water — a problem in desert areas.  Powerhouses charged by water flow require reservoirs with penstocks and are dependent upon a constant flow via rain.  No Leftist will ever consider nuclear energy again.  No Leftist will consider coal or oil — Mr Obama has made it quite clear that he will do his best to kill coal and oil-fired electrical generation stations.

So what’s left?  Progressives on a bicycle with a chain connected to a generator?  They may be sadly disappointed in its inability to recharge their iPad, iPhone, iPod, iPid, iPiss and iSwear that Leftists make very little sense to me.

Step one.

BZ

 

 

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