Show of Hands

Mailed gauntlet

Is there a point being made?

If you don't get it, then I am not really interested in explaining.

Ok. Is there a correct answer?

Why?

We need to become less dependent on oil, not more. And you would still need to transport using rail cars, just not as much

This doesn't make us more dependent on oil. I'm all for funding new alternative energy but for now, we are using petrol.

It will happen before November. His party needs all the help it can get. Creation of jobs is the end result.

The democrat base as seen in the past will sacrifice jobs and saving money for the environment, understandable, but if anything, this pipeline will help the environment. He won't pass it until after is my bet

....Help the environment? What magic trickery of denial are you casting?

The tankers and trucks used to transport the oil are releasing Co2 into the atmosphere, while the pipeline isn't(or not nearly as much).

So your position is that because it is not releasing CO2, that it is good for the environment? You're willing to ignore any other environmental damage that may occur and focus only on a single aspect of the pipeline's impact?

I never said it was great or anything. I just said that it would be a lot better for the environment than what we are doing now to transport oil. Sure they'll have to displace some things but it's worth it.

"this pipeline will help the environment."

Am I to take it that the above sentence does not actually mean that the pipeline will help the environment?

Maybe I should redact my statement? If that's ok with you (;

It will lessen the harmful impact on the environment from transporting petroleum.

It made sense to me. Pipelines are environmentally friendly. See Alaskan Pipeline for examples. The libs got all bent outta shape for that one, too. Then Exxon Valdez occurred. Hmmmm... Tough call...me thinks not!

To be fair I can't imagine they are 100% friendly but I think a lot of the risk involved in petrol transport is taken out of the equation which in a sense is more environmentally friendly. Better than ships, trucks and rail carts lol.

Word!

This pipeline is better for the environment, because if we don't build it, Canada will sell it to China. It will be shipped via ship to a country that doesn't have the environment as a high priority.
Environmentalist don't have an effective argument

for stopping the pipeline. They don't really care about the environment worldwide, just where they can complain with impunity.

Liberalism is a mental disorder.

Their leader is against the pipeline. They follow him no matter what he does.

There is a crack in the Democrat dike on this as of late. Incumbents are starting to sweat the November election.

Morning!

Environmentalists don't want either.

Yeah, but that's stupid and unrealistic. The oil and natural gas will be produced whether they like it or not. Off they oppose the pipeline, it will be transported in a way that's worse - their wishes be damned.

That is my problem with the so called environmentalists. Their lack of common sense causes more environmental damage than the progress they are blocking.