The Keystone XL Pipeline

"I hate jobs!"

 On Wednesday President Obama personally canceled the Keystone XL pipeline.  The safety aspects of this pipeline have been studied for three years.  The pipeline would have been a boon for the U.S. economy, decreasing energy independence by reducing the need for foreign energy and therefore increasing national security. It would have lowered domestic energy costs, heating, gas prices, food costs would have all gone down.  It would have also created thousands of jobs for U.S. workers, up to 20,000 according to some estimates.

However, Obama hates both the environment and the United States.  On Wednesday he emerged from his liberal think tank meeting and said, "This announcement is not a judgment on the merits of the pipeline, but the arbitrary nature of a deadline that prevented the State Department from gathering the information necessary to approve the project and protect the American people. I'm disappointed that Republicans in Congress forced this decision, but it does not change my administration's commitment to American-made energy that creates jobs and reduces our dependence on oil."

As you can see, the Republicans in Congress "forced" their way into the White House in the middle of the night and forced Obama to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline.  I'm surprised the Republicans breaking into the White House and forcing the President to cancel a project that he says is good for American-made energy was not covered more thoroughly by the press.  The press was really asleep on that one!

Any Obama supporters that have made it this far into this post may be asking, "Yeah Obama hates America but you also said he hates the environment!  That part isn't true!".  Well of course Obama hates the environment.  He personally made sure that millions of barrels of oil get routed away from a safe pipeline that has been studied for 3 years knowing full well that now the oil will go to China.  Everyone knows the Chinese are not environmentally friendly, the don't have a government agency that protects the environment, they don't have good environmental standards, they mine for coal with nuclear weapons etc etc..  So now Obama has made sure that the oil produced in Canada will have a bigger environmental impact and will definitely not be used as efficiently as it could have been.  Who would use the oil produced in Canada more efficiently?  The U.S. or China;  the answer is clear.

Normal Eco wackos may not realize that the oil will now end up hurting the earth worse than it would of if the Keystone XL pipeline would have been built immediately.  It is hard for them to focus when they are smoking marijuana all day, and asking their parents for more rent money.  So I doubt they realize that as long as Obama keeps oil prices high he can use tax payer dollars to further line his friends pockets with tax payer dollars that they can use to make more solar panels at their failed solar panel factories.  Now maybe Obama can try to get another stimulus package so he can fund more companies that are doomed to fail like Solyndra!
 
If you own oil patch companies like Exxon, Chevron, Hess, BP, etc. then this is all good news for you.  Obama took a break from torturing kittens and kicking senior citizens down flights of stairs long enough to ensure that oil prices remain a bit higher in the near future.  This also good for my Russian readers, your leaders are wise enough to provide its citizens with domestic energy.  Plus higher oil prices are good for countries that produce large amounts of oil as well as the companies that produce and transport oil.  Obviously, I disagree with the decision to cancel construction of the pipeline.