A Novel Way to Fight the Keystone XL Pipeline

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9. They don't move tar, they move crude oil

The material they send in the pipeline is crude oil. Tar can't be pumped long distance. As such the pipeline is just another pipeline, and the USA has many. The comment is right. The Longhorn pipeline was reversed and its shipping oil from Cushing to the Texas refineries. This helped reduce the refining profits for large oil companies in the Midwest, and puts pressure on heavy oil supplies out of Venezuela, which come to the USA by tanker. The Venezuelan crude from their Orinoco oil belt and the Canadian Alberta tar sand crudes are the same material anyway. And it's also modified or diluted, arrives in the USA as a crude oil because it can't be sent as is by tanker.