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Originally posted by wrathchild
here's a reason.....reduce America's dependence on middle-eastern oil..they could have built hundreds of these pipelines for what they spent on wars.
Originally posted by lokdog
I guess the same reason they build roads and rail for private business. I think it's called crony capitalism and it infects the USA to the core.
Originally posted by IronDogg
reply to post by watchdog8110
Yeah that article foreshadows the future of China selling Canada's oil to the US for huge profits...
I tell ya, China is going to beat the US in the end without ever drawing their sword...
Like previously mentioned and asked, why doesn't Canada build big refineries up there in the area to refine the oil sands crude into end user products rather than pipelining the crude to existing facilities on the other end of the continent?
The Canadian oil and gas company TransCanada hopes to begin building a new oil pipeline that would trek close to 2,000 miles from Alberta, Canada to Texas.
Originally posted by jdub297
reply to post by jlafleur02
Who says "WE" are building it for the oil companies?
How much are "WE" paying?
Who are "WE" paying to do the work?
AFSCME?
SEIU?
AFL-CIO?
Your thread could've included the opening sentence of the propaganda, but that would've made it either awkward or hypocritical:
The Canadian oil and gas company TransCanada hopes to begin building a new oil pipeline that would trek close to 2,000 miles from Alberta, Canada to Texas.
www.foe.org...
Would you prefer we get our fuel from the Saudis? China?edit on 21-12-2011 by jdub297 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by JIMC5499
The link is to a crap environmentalist website. There are no government funds being used to build the pipeline. As a matter of fact the US Government has no business even being involved in the pipeline. Obama is just using it as a revenue generator for his campaign funds. The Environmentalists are donating to him, trying to get him to stop the pipeline, while the oil companies are donating to him, trying to get him to allow the pipeline.