The Obama administration's ability to dodge making a decision over the Keystone XL pipeline project is just amazing.
New oil resources are coming to American refineries without new pipelines--and lets not forget the Canadian pipeline that the Obama administration has yet again delayed to keep radical environmentalists on board through the fall elections--via trains:
Train crashes are already destructive enough to warrant their own idiom, but when oil is involved, the risks to health and environment are compounded. Complicating the matter further, the crude being transported is of a particularly explosive variety. ...
Of course, there is an alternative: build out our nation’s already extensive oil pipeline network. Pipelines are ultimately the most efficient way to bring hydrocarbons from large fields to large refineries, and they’re also safer than transporting crude by rail or truck.
As the shale revolution continues to yield millions of barrels of tight oil, it makes sense from both cost and safety perspectives to expand and extend our pipelines. That includes the Keystone XL pipeline.
For the biggest names among the wealthy money sources for the Democratic Party who believe it is better to look green than to be green, President Obama's stance on Keystone XL looks marvelous.
And you know who you are.
