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Kochs Won't Benefit From Keystone XL--But Warren Buffett Might

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And what's with Democrats' desire to bring us back to the stone age?
Are you really concerned about "clean air"? If you were, you'd support the pipeline. The pipeline produces no emissions to merely transport the stuff from point A to point B. The most emissions would come from building the damn thing.
Instead, Canada is going to sell to China. They're going to go ahead with building the pipeline with or without America. The carbon and ecological footprints to build through the mountains to the Pacific are far greater than building the thing on a straight shot over flat land.
Then, China's going to load it up on to their ships. The carbon footprint of shipping the stuff across the ocean is massive. And then, in the end, the oil is going to be processed into fuel and burned anyway.
The only difference is that it helps China, not America.
Not to mention that tankers transporting oil across the Pacific means potential for oil spills. Maritime oil spills are far more difficult to contain than land-based ones.
So this begs the question: why do Democrats hate clean air AND clean water?
The Keystone thing shows just how out of the realm of reality today's left is. It's why they got their asses handed to them in 2010 and it's why there will be a repeat in 2012.

Brad9883 of FL 5:37PM January 25, 2012

First of all, Obama has not permanently banned the XL pipeline. His actual words were: "Earlier today, I received the Secretary of State’s recommendation on the pending application for the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. As the State Department made clear last month, the rushed and arbitrary deadline insisted on by Congressional Republicans prevented a full assessment of the pipeline’s impact, especially the health and safety of the American people."
Why would someone use a Washington Whispers reference as if a documentation of fact? It is an opinion site, not an official and/or credible site. In fact, it is emphasized that: "Washington Whispers has appeared in U.S. News & World Report since 1933, offering a fun take at the scene inside Washington."
There are hundreds of thousands who were hoping the President would delay the XL pipeline construction until research was completed and safety issues addressed.
Groups against XL pipeline:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AfSyJJCAkY
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/05/groups-sue-to-block-construction-of-keystone-xl_n_996075.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/president-obama-rejects-keystone-xl-pipeline/story?id=15387980#.TyBz5kpU-Cg
http://sicangueyapaha.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/bordeaux-to-thune-clarify-keystone-comments-and-apologize/

ann keenan of MI 5:28PM January 25, 2012

What is this adoration for dirty air and water that Republicans have? The idea is to save the Ogalalla Aquifer, not benefit Warren Buffett. What a splendidly irrelevant piece of rancid snark.
Dreary Peter Roff has once again been a good little errand boy for the Koch Brothers. They will undoubtedly give him a lollipop.

Panskeptic of MT 10:25AM January 25, 2012