BULLDOG
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Fuel prices can not and will not drop more than a few pennies below what they already have. That line has nothing to do with our price of gas anyway. It will all be sold overseas on the global market.There's nothing dangerous in this - but they exaggerated the benefit so much, it was just too easy for opponents to pick apart their lies.
I can't help but note the irony here. Obamacare was oversold in the same manner, and elicited the same response from the American public. But oh, it was imperative that it be passed...you know, for the sake of uninsured Americans everywhere. The bill was so oversold, people began to see its flaws, even before it was passed by a Democratic supermajority. So you see, liberals know a lot about how to oversell, in their case however, no amount of resistance would have stopped the passage of that law. And that makes you and your party duplicitous in nature.
This is nothing more than a partisan pissing match over a largely inconsequential project.
"Largely inconsequential." I hope you're joking. Let that sink in for a moment. In my previous example, for example, in one case a healthcare law was touted as a major step and highly important. However, when it comes to things like this pipeline, it is 'largely inconsequential.' Funny, your wind sails and solar panels were supposed to engineer our energy independence by getting rid of oil as an energy source altogether; the next great thing.
But gas, as it is now, is at levels I haven't seen since I was in my freshman year at high school. If that pipeline is ever to be built, we will see prices approaching levels that haven't been seen since my Grandmother was MY age. You can bank on it. As long as there is oil, there is gas and as long as they are affordable, alternative energy will not. And as a result, you could say they will remain "largely inconsequential!"
Prove it will all be sold overseas. Which refinery has claimed this?
Keystone is just a pipeline that transports Canadian crude and American domestic crude.
What your refineries do with the finished product has absolutely nothing to do with Keystone. How many times do you have to be told that the crude is coming to the Gulf by the Keystone line that is finished, by rail and transport?
You're not stopping the crude from coming to the Gulf or other refineries.
With our decreased demand here in the US., refineries already export 60% of refined products. We don't import any appreciable amounts of refined products, so the remaining 40% already takes care of our needs. Can you give a single reason why refineries would sell the increased production from XL here instead of taking advantage of their free trade zone designation, with it's substantial tax savings, and sell it overseas?
XL isn't a producer. It's just the proposed additional northern leg of a pipeline.
Keystone is not an oil producer. Just a pipeline. If US refineries want to make money exporting refined products it would have nothing to do with XL. Nothing at all.
Just a pipeline.
So you think XL just picked out a destination without extensive communication with the refiners? That's dumber than I gave you credit for.