Thread: Obama kills Keystone

Good for them. They picked the environment over a largely useless pipeline which would make the Koch brothers even richer from government sponsored "corporate welfare".

I was always very torn on this issue...but in a good way. On the one hand, i loathe environmentalists, eco terrorists who should be rounded up the same way we round up AQ.

However i absolutely loathe unions as well, and the prospect of 20K of unionized jobs being created, repulses me as well.

So whichever way this went down, i had at least a part of me that was disappointed, but at least one group of individuals whose misery i could revel in.

Originally Posted by Formaldehyde

Good for them. They picked the environment over a largely useless pipeline which would make the Koch brothers even richer from government sponsored "corporate welfare".

Yeah, that's right, the Keystone project is useless, no need for jobs and no need of the oil. Typical.

again Obama picks politics over the American people.

To be fair, this does help keep the price jus that slight bit higher as well. Bodes well for oil traders/speculators.

Originally Posted by Forplay

Yeah, that's right, the Keystone project is useless, no need for jobs and no need of the oil. Typical.

Only other pipelines which don't directly endanger the environment already exist, which is why I properly called it "largely useless".

I love the obvious hypocrisy here, as usual. When Obama takes measures to directly save tens of thousands of jobs in the auto industry, he is portrayed as being pure unmitigated evil. But when he doesn't allow a company with a proven track record of creating environmental problems to build a pipeline in an area which is critical to the water needs of the Midwest, and which would create a few thousand temporary jobs for a very brief time, he is again pure unmitigated evil.

Do you really think this continual obviously absurd partisanship is fooling anybody?

Originally Posted by Formaldehyde

Only other pipelines which don't directly endanger the environment already exist.

I love the obvious hypocrisy here, as usual. When Obama takes measures to directly save tens of thousands of jobs in the auto industry, he is pure unmitigated evil. But when he doesn't allow a company with a proven track record of creating environmental problems in an area which is critical to the water needs of the Midwest, he is again pure unmitigated evil.

Do you really think this continual obviously absurd partisanship is fooling anybody?

Pot meet kettle.

It'll be great press for the GOP when summer gasoline prices spike.

Originally Posted by JDJarvis

It'll be great press for the GOP when summer gasoline prices spike.

true

Originally Posted by Traveler

To be fair, this does help keep the price jus that slight bit higher as well. Bodes well for oil traders/speculators.

Some folks can't stick it to the 1 percenters no matter how hard they try.

Originally Posted by Formaldehyde

Only other pipelines which don't directly endanger the environment already exist, which is why I properly called it "largely useless".

I love the obvious hypocrisy here, as usual. When Obama takes measures to directly save tens of thousands of jobs in the auto industry, he is portrayed as being pure unmitigated evil. But when he doesn't allow a company with a proven track record of creating environmental problems to build a pipeline in an area which is critical to the water needs of the Midwest, and which would create a few thousand temporary jobs for a very brief time, he is again pure unmitigated evil.

Do you really think this continual obviously absurd partisanship is fooling anybody?

How you can connect the two is beyond me. Obama used tax payer dollars to save the union, for their vote, which should never have been done. The auto's should have been let to fail. Period. The tax payer will never get the billions he spent. Here he pandered to the union.

Now to the pipeline, here he is pandering to the environmentalist. In both cases it's all about getting the union and the environmentalist vote. It's not about the American people, he has never been about the American people. Further the pipeline is being built in the US to US specifications and under US inspectors. Hell we built the Alaska pipeline in arctic conditions over frozen tundra and it has been a huge success. Yet you claim we can't build a pipeline in ideal conditions.

Originally Posted by Formaldehyde

Do you really think this continual obviously absurd partisanship is fooling anybody?

No, your partisanship isn't fooling anybody.

Oh, wait, that's probably not the partisanship you were referring to....

Originally Posted by Forplay

Yeah, that's right, the Keystone project is useless, no need for jobs and no need of the oil. Typical.

ahoy Forplay,

i wonder if this will end up creatin' jobs in the green energy sector? aye...and as Traveler correctly notes, at least workin' class union workers got keelhauled, so thar be that fer ye to have some glee in.

- MeadHallPirate