Sixty-six Percent of Americans in Favor of Keystone XL Pipeline
Un-fuckin’-real. According to a new Pew Poll, 66% of Americans are in favor of building the Keystone XL pipeline. Only 23% are opposed.
DUUUHHH!!!
Supposedly the original inhabitants of Easter Island died off after they had used up the last of their resources. There was no more food, and the last tree had been cut down, so they couldn’t even build a boat to go somewhere else.
Has the human race gotten any smarter since then? [see above]
Last week’s Exxon Mobil pipeline rupture in Arkansas is just a preview of what we can expect if/when the Keystone XL Pipeline is built. Thousands of barrels of crude oil flooded streets and people’s lawns and killed some of the local wildlife.
Can’t wait ‘til this starts happening on a massive scale.
And there’s more good news (if you’re a tar sands oil executive). The type of crude oil that’s being carried in the Exxon Mobil pipeline through Arkansas — and will be transported through the Keystone XL Pipeline — is actually NOT oil. I mean, it pollutes like oil, and it gets all over everything and kills wildlife, just like oil.
But thanks to a law written in 1980, the tar sands oil being transported through pipelines is NOT classified as oil. And because tar sands oil technically/legally isn’t oil, the companies transporting tar sands oil are NOT required to pay into the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund. This is the fund that ensures there will be enough money to pay for the cleanup of oil spills.
Producers of “conventional” oil are required to pay eight cents per barrel into this fund. But tar sands oil producers and transporters don’t have to pay into it, since tar sands oil isn’t oil.
Somebody should tell the residents of Mayflower, Arkansas (site of last week’s tar sands oil spill) to cheer up. That’s not oil gushing into their yards and covering their pets — it’s just tar sands oil.
Labels: Exxon Mobil pipeline Arkansas, Keystone XL Pipeline, Pew Poll
posted by Tom Harper @ 2:39 PM
6 Comments:
And the wheel keeps spinning!
I wonder if these people know exactly what the pipeline is all about. I read somewhere recently, last year we produced more oil here in Amruka than they did in Saudi Arabia. The lure of that cheap gas is enough for people I guess, at the expense of the people living in the states that will be affected and the environment.
signed Tree hugger and planet lover jess
Not only is it not oil, it is more toxic than oil.
We've never learned from our mistakes before, why start now? Pass the Keystone, which is probably made with tar sands instead of hops anyway.
And I'm betting the majority of that 66% are woefully misinformed or just willfully ignorant about probably every aspect of Keystone XL.
Mr. C: Yup, some things never change.
Jess: We might as well change the country's name to Saudi America. And it probably won't even have much effect on gas prices, since the global market sets those prices; and the more we drill, the more we export.
Jerry: You're right. It's too bad more people aren't aware of this.
Randal: True, why should Homo Sapiens start getting smarter now, of all times?
LKaervek:
I think they're both misinformed and willfully ignorant.
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