Ya, no need to build a pipeline because there already is one. It looks like this:
This style of pipeline is prone to crashing, leaking, exploding and
wiping out small towns. It is also expensive, dirty and sends greentards into a fit by generating tons of CO2 (the horror).
The US is already criss-crossed by millions of miles of pipeline but adding a few thousand more is all of the sudden the greatest threat facing mankind - ever!
So the US doesn't want Canadian oil because it's dirty and blah, blah, blah (insert standard activist talking points here). Fine. We can sell it elsewhere and deliver it by oil tanker - which is obviously far cleaner and safer than pipeline. The US can continue to buy their oil from Saudia Arabia, Venezuela, Nigeria and all of those other awesome countries that they seem to prefer.
There is no real valid reason to not build this pipeline. It's just another one of those activist and media driven frenzies that all of the misinformed masses and politicians latch onto because everybody else is. Obama is an idiot and is only opposing this because the green lobby is telling him to. If he had any leadership ability it would already be built.
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