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Spazito

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5. That's exactly it!

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Fri Jan 27, 2012, 11:27 AM

Jan 2012

Canada and the multinational oil companies profit from the XL pipeline and the dirty tar sands oil while the U.S. states where the pipeline is slated to run through have the very real environmental risk and all so the dirty oil can be refined and then shipped to China and other countries.

I hope the pipeline proposal is dead, dead, dead.

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Obama contrasts 'Canadian Resources Shipped Around the World' vs. 'American Oil and Gas; US Energy ' [View all] bigtree Jan 2012 OP

"With #KXL Big Oil gets profit, foreign countries get oil, Americans get risk" Pirate Smile Jan 2012 #1

Developing American oil and gas so it can then be processed and shipped around the SammyWinstonJack Jan 2012 #2

that's not what he said bigtree Jan 2012 #3

That would put an end to the XL pipeline through here if we did concentrate on U.S. energy. Life Long Dem Jan 2012 #4

That's exactly it! Spazito Jan 2012 #5

This will be easily get done. Just AFTER the election. nt Romulox Jan 2012 #6