This pipeline from Canada to the Gulf is not for America, it is for multinationals profit and export of the oil. Valero already has contracts for it, read their quarterly report.
They are not waiting for the pipeline, already it is arriving by rail tanker car. 225,000 barrels a day today, rail cars are being leased to bring it to 700,000 barrels by next years end.
Just a word of caution, more leasing of land, more drilling, more refined product in the US will not make oil cheaper, we have too little to impact the price of oil which is set and traded on world markets subject to international jitters and speculators, and our input is only a few percent of the world total. The only relief for each of is to use less and less, keep your tires aired up, engine tuned up, drive as little as possible, and if you buy new, go for the highest mpg you can get. I am not in the market but if I was I would get the new Prius with solar panel roof that runs the airconditioner, even when the car is turned off, and it gets 50 or more mpg, and by todays prices it's a mid price car.
Never heard anything about this until we went down to Tejas and heard it on the local news. The thought that people can get arrested for protesting on their own property is fucking UNAMERICAN!!
ReplyDeleteYou can thank the Soupremes for making it legal to take land away from owners and giving it to corporations. The deal that decided it never did get built in Connecticut.
If Romney gets in look for this practice to become widespread, with 2 or 3 more Scalia's on the bench, not being rich will mean a title to property is not proof of ownership.
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