ltdumbear2 said:
could be maybe there's more to this than meets the eye; our fearless-leader has effectly put the planned-pipeline on hold. I want a job just as much as everyone else, but I can't see the logic in running a pipeline nearly 2000 miles from Canada on down to Texas...gotta be other alternatives; Texans don't necessarily have a 'monopoly' on oil/gasoline refinery technology/know-how.
It's bad enough that the peace and serenity of the Rocky Mtn West has been turned upside-down with the huge influx of trucks and support personnel running Warp nine-point-nine-oh everywhere they go...I'm glad that this pipeline won't be built anytime soon. I moved out here to get AWAY from all the craziness...and now it's all caught up in my wake ?
...not on MY watch ! !
The cost to build the entire pipeline is less than the cost to build a single refinery. The refineries here in Texas are also already interconnected to each other through a series of additional pipelines.
We have plants all across the Gulf that are not just refining crude into gasoline, but also all the needed chemicals and other things that are required to make gasoline now....we have a CO2 pipeline, a Crude Oil Pipline, a Natural Gas pipeline, an Argon pipeline, and a water pipeline crossing our ranch...all of them service multiple refineries....not just one.
This pipeline is good for both Canada and the US...it gives Canada a market for its oil with an energy and environmentally friendly means of distribution....it also allows the US to be less dependent on the middle east, and therefore less militarily active in the middle east....Also important for the military..having a reliable source of fuel that is not located near all of our enemies...good for Canada too -since Canada basically defaults to the US for all military protection.
Once the middle east is out of oil, we can all just let the morons kill themselves off....it will be the best thing that ever happened.