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2013-07-29 Economy

Barack Obama expresses reservations about Keystone XL pipeline project

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Posted by Fred 2013-07-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Oops.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-07-29 00:57|| 2013-07-29 00:57|| Front Page Top

#2 I can't find the article now, but (I know this is a shock to y'all) Obama's lying about the jobs numbers; a lefty org. claimed job creation at a far higher number, and completely ignores indirect job creation (refineries, etc.).

Posted by Raj 2013-07-29 01:06|| 2013-07-29 01:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Keep it up shitforbrains;
the UP and BNSF will gladly fill in for the pipeline and also create an increase in pollution since nobody has figured out a way to make diesel engines pollute less than a pipeline. don't cry then when a railroad accident occurs.
does this gguy EVER make an intelligent decision?

Posted by USN, Ret. 2013-07-29 01:15|| 2013-07-29 01:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes, consumer access to more product always results in higher prices....but only in an Obama world.

Blue state pipeline jobs tends to increase so-called White Privilege. That's his REAL concern.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-07-29 06:45|| 2013-07-29 06:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Champ wants to trade Keystone for his immigration bill which is currently sitting in the House. Right now he wants us to stress that we might lose Keystone. Then he'll make a "deal" with the House. House R's will claim victory because they got Keystone approved.

Posted by Iblis 2013-07-29 11:09|| 2013-07-29 11:09|| Front Page Top

#6 No jobs and no economic benefit is why the Chinese have no interest in it. Ooops.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-07-29 11:30|| 2013-07-29 11:30|| Front Page Top

#7 I think he wants the Canuks to sweeten the pot:

"there is no doubt that Canada at the source in those tar sands could potentially be doing more to mitigate carbon release."

Or both. Or because he wants to make a crisis out of the issue. Whatever makes him look the best.

Posted by Bobby 2013-07-29 11:56|| 2013-07-29 11:56|| Front Page Top

#8 At some point the left needs to throw the environmentalists under the bus and fix the economy or the blue model will collapse entirely. Question is, before 2014 or after.

Posted by rjschwarz 2013-07-29 14:35|| 2013-07-29 14:35|| Front Page Top

#9 BHO's grasp of economics lacks opposable thumbs. But let's assume, for the sake of argument, 2000 jobs is the number.

a) it may be a drop in the bucket compared to the total number of jobs we need, but it is 2000 jobs we don't have now. And who says we need a single project to all the needed jobs at once?

b) those 2000 workers need support - food, fuel, tools, living quarters, clothes, you name it. All those things mean jobs for someone else.

I think the real problem here is the pipeline creates jobs for the wrong people.

Posted by SteveS 2013-07-29 23:10|| 2013-07-29 23:10|| Front Page Top

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