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comment by bioemerl
bioemerl  ·  3355 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Obama Vetoes Keystone XL Pipeline Bill(!)

If we want to help the environment, we can fund the development of green tech. We can push forward taxes on pollution that distributes the damages on the companies that release the CO2, and cause product prices to reflect the pollution they cause. We can do one of a hundred thousand things.

Killing our ability to transport oil, stopping the building of pipelines, will do nothing of worth, and is a bunch of political bolstering. Yeah, it won't make any jobs, and it won't take any jobs, it won't be significantly harmful to the environment. Who cares?!? This is as stupid as the republicans opposing every last thing the democrats do just because they are the other party.