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13. In the long run, you are right about

Mon Feb 8, 2021, 01:46 AM

Feb 2021

climate change. But in the present and shorter term future, this matters a great deal. If Biden loses support, or if Dems lose seats in Congress, we will not be in a position to do anything about the environment or climate change. Do you think a Republican Congress or adminstration would care about either climate change or the environment?

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Top union leader: Biden's Keystone plan wrong, will cost U.S. jobs [View all] Klaralven Feb 2021 OP

I have a lot of respect for Dick Trumpka but in his scenerio 100 families aren't working ... marble falls Feb 2021 #1

"Keystone decision will cost 1,000 existing union jobs and 10,000 projected construction jobs. " Takket Feb 2021 #2

So what? Do you want to lose PA Senate seat and PA next presidential? dem4decades Feb 2021 #11

Yeah. So what? Takket Feb 2021 #34

What do you think the blue collar job market is going to look like when Miami is under water? Act_of_Reparation Feb 2021 #35

In the long run, you are right about wnylib Feb 2021 #13

Thinking only about the short term BarackTheVote Feb 2021 #36

Most of those 11,000 jobs are temporary, anyway. GoCubsGo Feb 2021 #23

How does the "temporary" work a Laborer does on a pipeline translate to a "more permanent WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2021 #27

I never said that a temporary pipeline job translates into a more permanent clean energy job. GoCubsGo Feb 2021 #37

What you said was, "Not only could those workers be put to work on more permanent clean energy WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2021 #40

ALL construction jobs are "temporary" former9thward Feb 2021 #30

???? GoCubsGo Feb 2021 #38

No, it will CREATE jobs. Goodheart Feb 2021 #3

So much this! Celerity Feb 2021 #15

So true treestar Feb 2021 #39

Red herring and he knows it. 2naSalit Feb 2021 #4

+1000! n/t Hiawatha Pete Feb 2021 #7

"The Keystone pipeline will create just 35 permanent jobs" Hiawatha Pete Feb 2021 #5

As Conan O'Brien said, it will create hundreds of jobs. Unfortunately, most of those jobs will FSogol Feb 2021 #29

+1000 n/t Hiawatha Pete Feb 2021 #33

Build something that causes less potential environmental damage and bad will? Repair infrastructure? Freethinker65 Feb 2021 #6

What use is the Oglalla aquifer when 1,000 jobs might go away? gratuitous Feb 2021 #8

Way to play into the hands of Republicans, Trumpka. SunSeeker Feb 2021 #9

I come from a strong union family and a problem SharonClark Feb 2021 #10

This is what some on the left don't get JI7 Feb 2021 #12

Will no one think of the out of work lamplighter? Electricity is taking all the good jobs! Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2021 #19

and buggy whips.... omg all the buggy whip makers - all out of work - n/t Locrian Feb 2021 #22

The shorted-sighted cycle never ends. halfulglas Feb 2021 #14

How many of those project jobs are Canadian.... Historic NY Feb 2021 #16

None. former9thward Feb 2021 #31

Republicans would have us sacrifice all our values and morals for a single job. KY_EnviroGuy Feb 2021 #17

+1000 Celerity Feb 2021 #18

Won't other infrastructure projects mean more construction jobs? dansolo Feb 2021 #20

He is both right and wrong. KentuckyWoman Feb 2021 #21

"Those jobs were temporary." So? That's how construction employment works. WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2021 #24

The purpose of the pipeline is to reduce costs and increase profits for the oil companies. Kaleva Feb 2021 #25

My understanding is that jobs are being created during construction, panader0 Feb 2021 #26

A better alternative would be to build a refinery in Canada. Kaleva Feb 2021 #28

They don't want to desecrate their land Historic NY Feb 2021 #32