Biden's decision to cancel Keystone is one the US will eventually regret.

[garybo]

Is this the beginning of the end for gas/diesel powered vehicles?

Opinion: Biden's decision to cancel Keystone is one the US will eventually regret

At first glance, President Joe Biden's executive order revoking the 1,200-mile Keystone XL pipeline cross-border permit may seem to be a symbolic bone throw to the environmental community. After all, the once cause célèbre pipeline project is much less economically viable now than when it...

www.cnn.com

 

[rkymtnman]

Is this the beginning of the end for gas/diesel powered vehicles?

what a stupid thing to say.
canadian sludge refined in the US and sold to China at a discount will render gas vehicles obsolete?

 

[garybo]

what a stupid thing to say.

Hello, it was a question, what's "stupid" about it?.

 

[hanimmal]

Is this the beginning of the end for gas/diesel powered vehicles?

Opinion: Biden's decision to cancel Keystone is one the US will eventually regret

At first glance, President Joe Biden's executive order revoking the 1,200-mile Keystone XL pipeline cross-border permit may seem to be a symbolic bone throw to the environmental community. After all, the once cause célèbre pipeline project is much less economically viable now than when it...

www.cnn.com

Run the pipeline under hi-ways into America, have a major works project and do cool shit like animal crossings.

We will eventually stick a straw in that, but there is no rush. And no reason to tear up the wilderness.

 

[rkymtnman]

Hello, it was a question, what's "stupid" about it?.

the whole premise that a cancelled pipeline will render gasoline obsolete.

 

[rkymtnman]

my bad @garybo . you seem to be correct. we dont' have near enough pipelines...

 

[topcat]

Admittedly, I didn't read the whole opinion, because that's all it is. I got to "When oil prices next boom (and trust me, they will)...", I quit reading. Why would I trust what the author said? He has no name recognition to me. He's just another shmo, talking. It appears to me to be CNN's effort to be fair to the nuts. Don't ever tell me again about how we need to rid ourselves of foreign oil dependence. That shit goes back to the early 70's and gas lines.

 

[TacoMac]

The Keystone XL pipeline deals almost exclusively with tar sand oil. It is the filthyist oil on earth. It's also very expensive to process.

In fact, right now with oil prices low, It's not even being used. It won't be used until oil goes sky high again because that's the only way it becomes cost effective.

Clearly, whoever wrote the article is essentially clueless.

 

[Herb & Suds]

Hello, it was a question, what's "stupid" about it?.

Because we love our children and their children...
Saving something that they dearly deserve (planet) and at the same time sticks it to the Fuel opportunist still receiving federal monies
Damn straight asking at this point if coal is the answer is extremely naive ...STUPID

 

[myke]

What’s stupid is the amount of diesel being burned now to rail the oil down to Tx.One way is like 120,000 gallons of diesel.

 

[rkymtnman]

One way is like 120,000 gallons of diesel.

that's only a 1/3 of what the pipeline leaked in the Dakotas before the farmer told the pipeline company that they had a leak.

 

[rkymtnman]

Over 380,000 gallons of oil spill from Keystone pipeline in North Dakota

More than 380,000 gallons of oil have spilled from a leak in the Keystone pipeline in North Dakota this week, officials said.

abcnews.go.com

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[myke]

What’s stupid is the amount of diesel being burned now to rail the oil down to Tx.One way is like 120,000 gallons of diesel.

That’s per trip. Not sure if that’s 1-2 days? Every day 365

 

[mooray]

Over 380,000 gallons of oil spill from Keystone pipeline in North Dakota

More than 380,000 gallons of oil have spilled from a leak in the Keystone pipeline in North Dakota this week, officials said.

abcnews.go.com

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Now where's that other thread/dude that was complaining about oil tanker trucks crashing and leaking...

 

[smokinrav]

Over 380,000 gallons of oil spill from Keystone pipeline in North Dakota

More than 380,000 gallons of oil have spilled from a leak in the Keystone pipeline in North Dakota this week, officials said.

abcnews.go.com

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How is it not top of list to reject that shit crude from Canada because it crosses to Ogallala Aquifer? Any spill that reaches the aquifer could ruin drinking water and farming in the Plains states.

 

[rkymtnman]

How is it not top of list to reject that shit crude from Canada because it crosses to Ogallala Aquifer? Any spill that reaches the aquifer could ruin drinking water and farming in the Plains states.

that's the reason why canada doesn't want to refine that crap. they care about their enviro and voted it down.

 

[rkymtnman]

Now where's that other thread/dude that was complaining about oil tanker trucks crashing and leaking...

don't hear too much about solar farms leaking do ya?

 

[xtsho]

They should have never been granted a permit to start that pipeline to begin with. Let the Canadians process and transport that filthy oil across their land. If they won't do it then neither should the US.

 

[myke]

Now I’m not an expert on this but from what I understand is Tx needs this oil. Now if you don’t want Canada’s then you’ll have to get it from an overseas sandbox. Now shipping oil by boat is by far the worlds most polluting way of transportation. Boats use a by product of oil that is like burning asphalt I think?? So one way or another the oil goes to Texas.
How much pollution do you want to make to get it there?

 

[rkymtnman]

what I understand is Tx needs this oil

TX doesn't need the oil. they are only refining it for canada. and then selling it to china.