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Buckwheat's Payoff To Buffett

Mike

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http://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/127181/COMMENTARY_An_ObamaBuffett_Connection_Could_Keep_Crude_Rolling_by_Rail


"NIMBY's" keeping the pipeline down huh???
 

Faster horses

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BN runs right through our place and after Buffet bought BN, there was a lot
of repair work going on--things that had been let go for years and years.
Now oil tanker cars go by often, 64 cars or more on about every train.
Just imagine the money that is being raked in...and this is just what goes by our place!

I've had the thought for quite awhile that is why Obama held up the Keystone pipeline. Market link just paid for a pipeline easement through our place to get oil out. Market Link is part of Keystone XL.

If the 'greenies' think moving that oil on trains is safer or better for the
environment, they should have been here for the spill when BN jumped
the tracks last summer. It was major. Gas went way up in the air and of course it was on fire. The volunteer firemen were ordered not to get too close to it. I think 4 cars blew up in all. They were full and it was scary!
It would take one heck of a pipeline leak to do all that damage and pipeline leaks don't act that way. The oil just doesn't gush out of the ground, it seeps
out and is detected very early. Denying Keystone XL from going through is just some more corruption on Obamas part.
 

Mike

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BN is heavily subsidized by U.S. taxpayers, harms the environment, exploits its workers and hurts small business. Critics wonder why the company is given such free rein.

Like any successful business rogue, Burlington Northern is a major player in the game of Washington influence peddling. Its various political action committees contribute almost $1 million a year to a cross-section of the Congress and Senate, with the largest donations going to representatives from states with a major BN presence. Last year, for example, BN’s railroad political action committee contributed $10,000 to Sen. James Exxon (D-NE) and $9,000 to Sen. Larry Pressler (R-SD). Burlington Resources has its own political action committee, as do several of its subsidiaries. BN’s efforts are supplemented by the industry group Association of American Railroads, which gives generous donations at election time, and which is supported by Burlington Northern.

Over the past twelve years, BN has been given federal encouragement to mechanize people out of jobs and export valuable resources tax-free to foreign countries, while the Bush administration and industry hammered spotted owls and “jobs vs. the environment” arguments into the public psyche. Many people are no longer buying this rhetoric.

Don Driscoll – mayor of Havre, Montana – has seen his community devastated by BN job cuts. Driscoll says bluntly, “Jobs are not being created [by increased logging] and don’t let anybody tell you they are. Corporate America needs to examine its soul. All I see inside [BN officers’] heads is numbers jumping over numbers. What about American workers and their families?”

Dr. John Osborne – President of Spokane, Washington-based Inland Empire Public Lands Council – thinks he has the solution to the problem of Burlington Northern. “If BN has not lived up to the letter and spirit of [its] Land Grant, [Burlington Northern] should forfeit [its] lands,” he says. By law, Congress can force Burlington Northern to do just that, as soon as it finds the courage to do so.
 

mrj

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Larry Pressler hasn't been a SD Sen. for many years now. I don't know if he ever came back to live in the state, and believe he is a lobbyist. Who knows, maybe for some Buffett outfit????

He was lame to damaging for SD as a Senator, imo.

Quite the various environment and 'human rights' lobbyists and their mobs are being used by Buffett and others who do not want this pipeline.

Maybe they should all go pitch in to clean up those lands trashed by some of those opponents decrying how they fear Keystone will pollute their (once, long ago) 'pristine' lands Keystone no longer plans to cross anyway.

What I like about the pipeline, which will NOT be crossing our land, is the FACT that they will be paying considerable property taxes in several counties, including the one I live in, rebuilding some county roads, and more which will benefit the areas they pass through. Not to mention creating a considerable number of jobs in each area, and also PAYING other utilities to move their underground lines, etc. Only bad thing about that I can see is that it may well drive up local wages, which might hurt a bit IF local folks should be lucky enough to think we could hire additional help when needed.

Too few people are knowledgeable about, or willing to admit, that oil prices are set by the world market prices, and that additional oil, produced in the USA, no matter where it is marketed, will affect that market more favorably for us living in the USA.

AND those who USE PEOPLE by sowing the seeds of envy of those perceived to be getting more wealthy are laughing all the way to the bank over the antagonism against those trying to increase fuel supplies in this country created by their 'sown crop' of envy!

mrj
 

loomixguy

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Mike said:
BN is heavily subsidized by U.S. taxpayers, harms the environment, exploits its workers and hurts small business. Critics wonder why the company is given such free rein.

Like any successful business rogue, Burlington Northern is a major player in the game of Washington influence peddling. Its various political action committees contribute almost $1 million a year to a cross-section of the Congress and Senate, with the largest donations going to representatives from states with a major BN presence. Last year, for example, BN’s railroad political action committee contributed $10,000 to Sen. James Exxon (D-NE) and $9,000 to Sen. Larry Pressler (R-SD). Burlington Resources has its own political action committee, as do several of its subsidiaries. BN’s efforts are supplemented by the industry group Association of American Railroads, which gives generous donations at election time, and which is supported by Burlington Northern.

Over the past twelve years, BN has been given federal encouragement to mechanize people out of jobs and export valuable resources tax-free to foreign countries, while the Bush administration and industry hammered spotted owls and “jobs vs. the environment” arguments into the public psyche. Many people are no longer buying this rhetoric.

Don Driscoll – mayor of Havre, Montana – has seen his community devastated by BN job cuts. Driscoll says bluntly, “Jobs are not being created [by increased logging] and don’t let anybody tell you they are. Corporate America needs to examine its soul. All I see inside [BN officers’] heads is numbers jumping over numbers. What about American workers and their families?”

Dr. John Osborne – President of Spokane, Washington-based Inland Empire Public Lands Council – thinks he has the solution to the problem of Burlington Northern. “If BN has not lived up to the letter and spirit of [its] Land Grant, [Burlington Northern] should forfeit [its] lands,” he says. By law, Congress can force Burlington Northern to do just that, as soon as it finds the courage to do so.

Jim Exxon, now deceased, was last a US Senator from Nebraska in the early 90's.
 
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