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Keystone: Step Aside Buckwheat!

Mike

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The truly bipartisan group of senators, led by Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat and powerful chair of the Senate Finance Committee, and John Hoeven, a North Dakota Republican, wrote President Obama on Friday urging him to quickly issue a permit for the northern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline that would bring over 830,000 barrels of crude from Canada's oil sands to American refineries every day.
"Setting politics aside, nothing has changed about the thousands of jobs that Keystone XL will create," the senators said in the letter, asking to meet with Obama soon on the project designed to extend 1,661 miles to the Port Arthur, Texas, area from Hardisty, Alberta.
"Nothing has changed about the security to be gained from using more fuel produced at home and by a close and stable ally. And nothing has changed about the need for America to remain a place where businesses can still build things."
As America heads toward a fiscal cliff and the debate rages over taxes and spending, increasing revenues through economic growth and expanding the tax base seem to have gotten lost in the shuffle.
Energy Independence
As America's oil production increases through technology and entrepreneurship on state and federal lands, the delightful prospect of genuine energy independence also looms, if the federal government starts being a partner and stops being an obstacle.
Right now that looks unlikely. The Environmental Protection Agency's war on coal and other fossil fuels continues. And just two days after winning re-election, President Obama's Interior Department issued a final plan to close 1.6 million acres of federal land in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming originally slated for oil shale development.
Known as the Green River Formation, this area has also been dubbed our "Persia On The Plains," with technically recoverable oil in an amount estimated at four times the proven resources of Saudi Arabia
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Read More At IBD: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/112012-634130-senators-ask...
 

hypocritexposer

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You mean the "southern leg" is being built , irregardless of obama's approval.

ther is only one inch of pipeline that needs obam's approval. He's not as powerful as he, and his supporters, think.

If it wasn't for those NIMBYs in Montana, the coal railway would be approved by now too.
 
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