The damage to
the climate resulting from extracting oil from tar sands is huge. Enormous
amounts of methane leak into the atmosphere in the process. Methane is
extremely destructive to the atmosphere. More dangerous than car emissions. In
order to accomplish this dangerous endeavor, Fascist politics must come into
play.
The extraction
of oil from tar sand involves enormous amounts of water and chemicals to release
the oil. All those chemicals damage the land and underground water sources. In
other words, there is probable poisoning of the land and water in Canada for
centuries. All that chemical laced water has to go somewhere. In America, some
people are lighting on fire the water coming out of their faucets in their homes.
The final
product (oil, chemicals, sand) is the most toxic oil on earth. 800,000 barrels
of poison delivered daily to refineries on our Gulf Coast through a pipeline
means that about 400,000 barrels a day of toxic waste has to be deposited
somewhere on American soil after our refineries extract usable oil.
These waste products
are deposited on American soil and in just a few years, there will be an
environmental catastrophe waiting to happen on our Gulf Coast. Many Americans
on the Gulf Coast don't want that waste accumulating in their back yards. It is
very toxic. It could potentially kill Americans.
In recent years
there has been many oil spills around the country from leaking pipelines. All
those leaks have been a disaster wherever leaks have occurred. None of those
leaks involved kind of toxic oil that will flow in the Keystone project. Leaks
from the Keystone Pipeline would be far more damaging than anything we have
seen so far.
The danger to
the aquifer running across the American breadbasket is immense. One good spill
by accident, act of God or terrorism could damage the ability of our breadbasket
to feed this country for many years into the future. That area of the country
has many tornados. One tornado could make a real mess of things. You can count
on at least one tornado a year causing a leak on the Keystone Pipeline.
Everything I
have read about job creation is not good news. Apparently, about 5,000
temporary jobs will be necessary in the construction of the pipeline. Those
jobs will last about one to two years then evaporate when the pipeline is
finished. Temporary jobs, mean temporary employees and temporary employees are
illegal aliens working for minimum wage so construction companies can maximize
profits.
Instead of
creating a few part time jobs for illegal aliens, Republicans should have spent
less time obstructing job creation bills proposed by President Obama and
Democrats. Republicans could have contributed much more to the American people
by not obstructing job creation bills.
Upon completion
of the pipeline, there will be about 50 permanent jobs. Everyone else that had
worked on the pipeline will be collecting unemployment. On top of all the other
problems, 90% of Keystone oil will be exported for overseas consumption.
America will obtain little oil to feed our need for fossil fuel. Gasoline
prices will not go down in this country. One study suggests gas prices will
rise if the Keystone Pipeline becomes reality.
The cost of
refining Canadian Tar Sand oil is too high for American consumption. Canada’s
Keystone Pipeline will retrieve $8 to $10 per gasoline overseas. Shipping
finished Keystone product to other countries provides profit for Trans-Canada
unobtainable in the American market. Selling Keystone refined gasoline in
America for $4.00 (or less) per gallon is a losing proposition for Trans-Canada.
Trans-Canada does not intend to lose money and that is why very little Canadian
oil will reach American consumers.
What we have here
is a foreign oil company destroying their own land as they pollute the Earth
with green house producing methane. Canadian land and water will be worthless
for centuries by the time Trans-Canada is finished exploiting American
ignorance.
Ill-informed Americans,
manipulated by politicians taking bribes from a foreign entity, demonstrate the
insidious nature of corporatism creeping into the American landscape. We are watching
our nation become a Fascist state. The common person in American is allowing corporate
greed and corrupt politicians to destroy our land, our water and our air so a foreign
company can make greater profit. Profits not enjoyed by Americans.
The Canadian
government and its people do not want toxic waste, produced by tar sand oil, deposited
on their land and they do not want that toxic poison transported across their
country putting at risk their natural habitat. Trans-Canada has found willing
people in America who choose to believe false assumptions about the benefits of
the Keystone Pipeline to the American consumer.
With the construction
of the Keystone Pipeline, America will take all the risks, obtain none of the
benefits and will not see enough jobs created to justify the risk to our land,
our people and our environment. American politicians need to start thinking
about what's good for our country and stop helping a foreign corporation make tons
of profit while American lives are at risk.
If America gets
the finished product and we see gasoline prices go down in our country,
Keystone may be worth consideration if the dangers to our nation are resolved.
This scenario will not happen of course and millions of Americans will do
everything in their power to help a foreign country maximize profit, all to the
detriment of our people.
Supporting the Keystone
Pipeline is the perfect example of people shooting themselves in the foot. Politicians
believing false claims and risking American lives for corporate profit is the
very nature of Fascism.
If American politicians
are aware of the dangers and choose to support corporatism despite the danger
to our people, then a certain criminal personality is on display for all to
see. There has never been a benefit, extended to the people through the exercise
of Fascism. Not ever.
