I consider myself an environmentalist so maybe I should be happy BUT I don’t understand how shipping oil by train is more environmentally friendly than through a pipe.
Very few. The southern portion of the pipeline (approved by Obama) was finished a while back; only the northern part was unfinished. Certainly some refinery jobs will be lost, but that's just part of the oil industry.
I have 40 years experience in the oil industry; trust me it's for the better for US oil production for this foreign oil to stay in the ground. First, it's uneconomic at current prices and it's only socialist Canadian subsidies that get that oil even close to economic, second, why didn't the Canadians move the oil on thei own land? It was because British Columbia prevented a pipeline to their coast to be offloaded on tankers. If the Canadians themselves AND the Canadian First Nation (Indians) didn't want a pipeline, why should we want it?
There is too much oil on the market anyway. Putting another 850,000 barrels would crater the price...which would be a very bad thing for US producers.
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