People of US of A are so ill prepared for bad crises', it is not even funny. If there is some national disaster, everyone in such region will go to the stores and hoard food, chips, and soda. Oh, and it is also full of fatties.
America is fine. It's the fuckstick in the white house that is the problem.
Americans like to bitch about gas prices as they are at the pump filling their knew F-150. It's just how it is.
People of US of A are so ill prepared for bad crises', it is not even funny. If there is some national disaster, everyone in such region will go to the stores and hoard food, chips, and soda. Oh, and it is also full of fatties.
American complaints about fuel price and lack of jobs daily, and it seems that they do not want to buy cheap fuel from Canada or jobs that it will provide.
The XL pipeline project will bring 1.7-1.9 million barrels of "dirty" Canadian oil daily to Texas for processing, and possibly up to 5 million barrels daily in the future. The project require 2-4 new refineries, and will provide roughly 10,000~30,000 jobs. With the possibility of employing an additional 30,000-50,000 people in 6-8 more refineries at 20-25 years from now.
Perhaps American want to pay market price for Canadian oil instead at a steep discount at the moment, because Canadian are not waiting and are pushing ahead with the dirty oil development. The Enbridge oil project will carry Alberta oil to BC coast and onto international market (mainly China) at a higher price than the strike price that American is currently paying for Canadian tarsand oil.
The objections to the pipeline have nothing to do with the quality of oil or the types of jobs...it's more about the potential pollution to the major aquifers that it will cross, to the potential pollution from leaks and spills. (it's not like the oil companies have some sterling record of protecting the environment)
Since the refiners are already running a HUGE surplus of refined products, (look at the recent threads about exporting gasoline) it's not like we currently need a larger supply...and it's not like the oil companies are struggling to make a profit.
decades? try closer to 100 years old. there are thousands of miles of pipelines in the US, and for the most part, have great safety and environment records. how do you people think the fuel and NG are brought to your town? It would take millions and millions of trucks to do it. We put NG in a pipe here, and it comes out at your house to give you heat.
its all politics. I think it should be built. if it is not, we will loose the economic benefits, and the raw oil will be sent to Asia for refining.
they'd hold their votes for the first black president hostage over such a nonsense issue, so out of touch with the needs of regular americans and frankly rationality they are.
People who think that being black is a qualification for president are also out of touch with regular Americans.
The US doesn't want to use either our own oil reserves or Canadian oil until the middle east is completely drained dry and the region is removed from the world's power struggles.
I wonder why there isn't similar protests to remove the existing (and quite old) hundreds (maybe over a thousand) miles of various pipelines running over the same aquifer. I would be much more comfortable with a brand new pipeline built with the latest and greatest materials, tech, and engineering versus one that is a few decades old.
In all, a relatively small amount of oil...but in an area that's nearly unspoiled...ExxonMobil spokeswoman Pam Malek said the pipe leaked an estimated 750 to 1,000 barrels of oil for about a half-hour before it was shut down. Other Exxon officials had estimated up to 42,000 gallons of crude oil escaped.
The Prudhoe Bay oil spill (2006 Alaskan oil spill) was an oil spill that was discovered on March 2, 2006 at a pipeline owned by BP Exploration, Alaska (BPXA) in western Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Initial estimates said that up to 267,000 US gallons (6,400 bbl) were spilled over 1.9 acres (7,700 m2), making it the largest oil spill on Alaska's north slope to date.[1]
One of the reasons for the pipeline failure was an insufficient level of corrosion inhibitor, a liquid which resists corrosion of pipeline by the corroding liquid, which is water.[10] John Dingell read from an internal BP email that said budgetary constraints would force the end of a programme to inject corrosion inhibitor directly into the pipeline system.[9] The process of injecting corrosion inhibitor directly into a pipeline, though costly, is much more effective than injecting in a process plant.
zanejohnson is still high. I feel sorry for your family.
dmcowen674 is still full of it as usual.
The canadian oil sands are not a cost effective source of carbon fuel at this point. The cost of extracting the oil from the oil sands is nearly twice as much as its market value is. It's ridiculously energy intensive, destructive to the environment and a significant portion of it cannot be extracted to any effective degree with current mining technology.
When all other sources of oil are depleted and were still burning up oil to run our world, then it's likely canada's oil sand filth will be extracted.