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Senate nears 60 on Keystone

Does that mean we should build this pipeline? A pipeline that is in danger? A pipeline that is going to create very few fulltime US jobs? A pipeline for in the long term will not benefit this country?

Yes.
No, it is not.
If it creates one, isn't that a plus?
Why not?
 

Well said and supported by this Canadian and just about everyone I know....

We are building condensing plans for Liquified Natural gas in the far north in Prince Rupert for export to China, plans are already under way to build a pipeline from Fort McMurray through the worst of the Rockies to the Rupe...negating the entire need for Keystone. Harper's Conservatives are on board, as are BC's Liberals and Alberta's ever Conservative government..all that remains in the traditional ay off to First Nations and we're a go....extraction, primary cleansing, refining and shipment all in country and Canadian jobs..

Yeah, I would rather this turkey die a quick death we will be better off.

The Chinese will **** though
 
So tear up all those railroad tracks and the existing 186,000 miles of pipeline, and if you like we can take back the right of way for the Alaskan oil that runs through Canada.

If your so opposed that is......

I have no problem with Canada refining it's own oil or Alaska refining it's oil or using some other means of transporting goods to the mainland US.
 

More propaganda. You being a red, shouldn't surprise anyone that alarmist, anti-business propaganda is all that you would know.

When you pass on or post such propaganda from a highly biased and propaganda ridden source, there is no conclusion that can be drawn other that you will fall for almost any kind of bs.
 

Think about it. What is one of the primary goals of the enviro-nuts? To get rid of the gasoline/diesel internal combustion engines and to end the use of fossil fuels. Because they are not smart enough to actually invest into research and create viable alternatives, they instead attack in what ever way they think people will believe. They invest heavily into propaganda (such as what Demsocialist keeps posting), political activism and in many cases enviro-terrorism.

To oppress instead of create has long been a hallmark of the left. It surprises you that they use it in their "fight" against fossil fuels?
 

Not really, what surprised me when I looked it up was that even the majority of Democrats are for the pipeline by a 49-38 margin. Except for that one group within the Democratic Party it seems the rest are for it to include the unions.

Keystone XL Pipeline Divides Democrats | Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
 
I've said it before and I'll say it again...

1) Americans aren't getting the oil. So it's not like it's going to lower our energy costs.
2) American's are taking all the risk by shipping it over their lands. There's a reason Canadians have already passed on this...
3) Very few permanent jobs after all the construction is done. So...

American's get what benefit from this? Not many Americans, fortunately Republicans have their useful idiot followers who can always be relied upon to shortchange other Americans. I'd be fine with this too if I knew for certain that once there's an oil spill national resources would not be used in the cleanup. But you know many of these state's rights hypocrites will be crying for federal aid once a disaster happens.
 

Labor and Environmentalist in the same party has always been rather strange, since Environmentalism has costs this country more jobs than just about anything. Environmentalism is the one faction on the left that has not always been there. Sure, they don't fit on the right, but they really don't fit on the left either. Perhaps, as the green party grows, we will see a change in the Dems as the enviro-nuts migrate over. Not that I would piss on either if I saw them on fire. Environmentalism, like fascism, doesn't really fit the spectrum but is generally a bad thing.
 
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Actually, we will also be using the pipeline for some of our own oil. As it passes through several states that are either new fields of production or ones that have seen the refineries close to which they previously had pipelines, that oil will be able to be shipped from the fields to the refineries much more affordably.

If someone thinks this pipeline is a disaster waiting to happen, they apparently are not aware of how much oil is currently being shipped by rail and trucks which is far more likely to have spills.
 

Tar sands are "processed" by adding thinning agents to allow them to flow thought he pipeline. Amazingly those agents are EVEN more harmful to the environment than the sticky oil that goes with it. Tar sands processing and refining produces more Co2 than conventional crude and is very expensive too. The 1st Keystone pipeline which runs to the Midwest had 11 leaks in the first year of operation too.

Top 10 facts about Alberta's Oil Sands

Not only is Keystone a disaster waiting to happen for he environment of the US, it will raise gas prices by providing a path for Midwest oil to be exported along with the tar sands production all for 50 full time jobs....But at least Obama will veto this and every other hare brained bill the GOP can think up. You do know that right?
 

My advice is shut the whole tars sands project down. Its' too expensive in too many ways. Now that the Chinese have signed on to reducing Greenhouse gas emissions, you won't be able to unload it on them. Tar sands **** will need 3 times the carbon credits as regular crude. It will become too dirty to use...cut your losses and put that land back into something tolerable that won't give us all cancer.. I'm surprised we can't smell it here in Florida. The entire project is an environmental nightmare whose time is long past.
 
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You are right we will be using that pipeline to export more oil and raise prices for us. Sure sounds like it is worth the risks. After all it will employ 50 whole Americans when completed in 2 years.
 
Looks like the Keystone Pipeline is gonna get passed the Senate. A bad deal that is gonna hurt a lot of people, worsen the environment, and really not help the US economy at all is most likely gonna be passed. [/FONT][/COLOR]

Yeah, but it's gonna make a couple of big corporations a lot of money. And that's all that really matters in this country, isn't it? Next we have to make sure that they don't pay any taxes on those profits.
 

Environmentalism is like a religion. There have been times when I thought the Environmentalist would be very happy to see the end of mankind so the world would remain pristine. But having people in the same political party with opposite views on one, two or even a few issues is really the norm. The GOP has a lot of members who are fiscal conservative but are not pro life or not anti-gay marriage for an example.

But I do think you are right in that if the Green Party could become a viable third party with a real chance to win elections the environmentalist they would indeed move into it. The green party is more of a political match for them than the Democrats. Think of this, if this billionaire environmentalist guy in California would have donated his 100 million to the green party instead if he ever did to the Democratic senatorial campaign for not approving the Keystone pipeline to the green party. I would wager that a some of their governor candidates would have become competitive, maybe a couple of their senate candidates, but if the green party had concentrated a lot of that cash that on their House candidates, cheaper and a bigger bang for their investment, they probably would have won 5 seats and perhaps one or two more out of the 15 or so candidates they ran for House seats.

Imagine the publicity in the MSM. Green Party candidate leading in the polls in such and such house races or green party candidate for governor within 5 points of the lead in Colorado or Illinois. That would be free publicity and would attract more donors from the public at large. Especially if the green party won some seat in the house there would be articles and stories in the MSM about the possibility of them becoming that viable third political party.

But that guy from California didn't so the above is meaningless.
 
You don't honestly think the Chinese are going to do anything to limit greenhouse gasses do you? Communists don't care about the environment. They care about power. If they address emissions in China it will be to placate the masses, not because they buy into some global warming nonsense. Communists will agree to anything. Then go right out and ignore the agreement.
 

Well at least if they buy that tar sands crap we will know they are bluffing. I doubt they will though. It will become a pariah that no one wants.
 
Well at least if they buy that tar sands crap we will know they are bluffing. I doubt they will though. It will become a pariah that no one wants.
Its oil. Someone will want it. If not everyone.
 
You are right we will be using that pipeline to export more oil and raise prices for us. Sure sounds like it is worth the risks. After all it will employ 50 whole Americans when completed in 2 years.

You mean like the exportation of Shale oil has recently caused such a drastic rise in gas prices over the last month? Maybe where you live, but gas prices here are over $.50 lower. Of course, Obama and his henchmen are now fighting against the deflationary affects of lowering oil prices.

And no, it will not all be exported. It will be pumped into the refineries in the Houston area. Perhaps that which is shipped from Canada will be exported, but then again, it was never really imported.
 

it sucks. For very few jobs, we're going to speed up climate change and risk more environmental damage. For oil that won't even be sold to us.
 

We are already exporting 400,000 barrels a day of gasoline surely that is enough. I hope you like breathing all those carcinogens that refining releases so other countries don't need refineries and can have clean air. There is no pipeline to Houston from the shale oil deposits now so no, exporting shale oil is not raising prices. That will change if XL goes through. I can guarantee you it won't be on Obama's watch...or Hillary's so don't hold your breath.
 
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Its oil. Someone will want it. If not everyone.

We are practically swimming in oil now. We need to put that tar sand crap back for a generation or 2 at least. Maybe then we will know how to use it efficiently.
 
We are practically swimming in oil now. We need to put that tar sand crap back for a generation or 2 at least. Maybe then we will know how to use it efficiently.

The oil is being extracted and sold now. It's presence on the market is one reason there is so much. The only question is whether we in the US will share in the wealth. We do that by building the Keystone XL in order to become the primary refiner of the Canadian crude.
 
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Poppycock. Tar sands crude is not even economically viable with oil below $100. Not to mention being the primary recipient of the carcinogenic air pollution from that refining and be the one taking all the risk of contaminating our aquifers from pipeline leaks. The only thing we won't get is gasoline, jobs or money from it. They are even going to use Russian Steel to build it. It sounds just perfect doesn't it? I can't believe that Obama will veto it, but he certainly will.
 
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It's actually profitable at any price above $65/barrel. The refinery that will process the crude already exists. Pipelines are the safest, cleanest means of transport, and since we already have about 185,000 miles of pipelines in the US, 2,000-3,000 more won't add any appreciable risk. A large share (perhaps most) of the refined product will be marketed in the US.
 
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None of the refined product is to be marketed here, we have no need for it. We are already exporting 400,000 barrels a day of gasoline.
I don't suppose you know that the first "Keystone" pipeline had 12 leaks in the first year. That sounds safe to you?
 
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