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GliderGuider

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2. The "problem" isn't the pipeline, but the stuff it carries.

Reply to limpyhobbler (Original post)

Tue Apr 16, 2013, 03:55 PM

Apr 2013

The pipeline just makes it easier for us Canucks to get the gunk to the Burning Men. Even if there was no Keystone XL, the stuff would get burned anyway. Canada wants the $$$ and would find other ways to sell it - slower, but just as sure in the end. Stopping the Keystone XL amounts to little more than a delaying action. It's of much greater symbolic than climatological significance.

What we need is not to stop Keystone XL, but to stop people from using energy from all fossil fuels, no matter what kind of a tube they come out of. Probability = 0.0

So it goes.

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Cooking the Books: The True Climate Impact of Keystone XL [View all] limpyhobbler Apr 2013 OP

Yes, of course. PDJane Apr 2013 #1

The "problem" isn't the pipeline, but the stuff it carries. GliderGuider Apr 2013 #2

The way to stop fossil fuel extraction is to fight fossil fuel extraction. limpyhobbler Apr 2013 #3

You're right that it's better to fight than do nothing GliderGuider Apr 2013 #4

The fact is that the current plan is to put the tar sands oil PDJane Apr 2013 #5