This Is Why You Build Pipelines, Kids

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Power Line: Steven Hayward

12/31/13

 

A former State Department official who told me not long ago that Canadians are baffledand exasperatedwith President Obamas opaque stance on the proposed Keystone pipeline. This seems rather simple to me: Obama is in the clutch of the environmentalists, and the Canadians simply dont understand that Obama is heedless of U.S.-Canadian trade relations. Keystone has made blockheads out of the administration, which is why I think we should be calling it the Blockhead pipeline, because even a blockhead ought to be able to see that it should be built.

 

The alternative to a pipeline is to ship oil by railroad, which is already happening on a large scale not only for Canadian crude, but for the soaring output from North Dakota. But shipping by rail is more expensive and, more importantly, risker than pipeline transport, as Casselton, North Dakota learned yesterday:

 

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