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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone who signs this petition, and then drives around in a car, is a hypocrite.  There are no magic gasoline fairies; either accept that there will be projects like this, or stop accepting the benefits that flow from such projects.  [/quote]

I am OK with the pipeline, but your logic is seriously flawed.  Driving a car does not mean you have to support anything and everything that has to do with oil and gas.  You can oppose a pipeline, or a style of tanker, or exploration in a certain area, or a method of extraction.  That does not mean you oppose oil itself.[/quote]

The tar sands will be developed whether or not Keystone is built; the other options for producing the tar sands involve far greater environmental risk (tankers) and are a less efficient use of the resource (shipping it to China vs. transport by pipeline to the U.S. for refining).  Opposing Keystone may make you feel better, but it contributes to a much worse state of the world if Keystone is stopped.  [/quote]

It's going to get built.  Everyone knows this.  The issue is to find a specific route that can get approved.

If this was really about oil efficiency, and not politics, the Republicans would not have tied it to the payroll tax cut bill in the first place, nor would they have stuck a deadline for approval that was  a mere 3 weeks after the current route was even agreed to by Nebraska, which was the state blocking the pipeline - a state led by a Republican governor and legislature.[/quote]

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