DiabloWags said:Cal88 said:Quote:
Never mind that the U.S. is currently producing a record 13.2 million barrels of crude oil per day.
U.S. Field Production of Crude Oil (Thousand Barrels per Day) (eia.gov)
Keystone XL scuttled.
Due to serious environmental concerns in Nebraska given the water supply.
Or do you just not care about Nebraska residents having access to clean water?
Are you aware that Canadian tar sand crude oil is unique compared to traditional crude oils... and highly corrosive (acidic) and has been documented to cause pipeline leaks at a 3x the rate of traditional crude?
If you don't believe me, you might want to read up on the BILLION DOLLAR PLUS Kalamazoo, Michigan oil disaster in 2010 by Enbridge Energy.
Only Keystone XL was scuttled.
There still remains 3 other Keystone Pipelines that have been transporting tar sands crude oil from Canada into the U.S. for the past 10 - 11 years.
Were you not aware of this?
And for what it's worth, even if Keystone XL had been built, there was no guarantee that an additional 830,000 of crude oil being transported into the United States would have remained here. It could very well wind up being EXPORTED by the oil companies.
What an Underground Keystone XL Spill Would Mean for Nebraska Groundwater | Nebraska Public Media
The Keystone XL Pipeline: Everything You Need To Know (nrdc.org)
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Notice how the typical Trumper on OT instantly disappears . . . once they are confronted with FACTS.
Happens every time.
First I don't think I qualify as a "typical Trumper", since I won't be voting for him. Second, if I don't respond it's most likely because I am busy or not bothered.
Third, your arguments about pollution or safety doesn't hold water (no pun intended). If the tar sand oil is more corrosive, wouldn't it make more sense to build newer pipelines that will definitely be less potentially leaky than the older existing ones, which already have been running through Nebraska for decades?
There might be some highly influential special interests here at play, perhaps railroad transport concerns like Berkshire that have been making a lot of money shipping Alberta oil to southern refineries...