The reluctance to proceed with the Keystone Pipeline is one more indication that our educational system has not done its job with regard to critical thinking. We all recognize that we need the jobs, but our president and the environmentalists fear for the welfare of the earth.
There are, according to http://www.theodora.com/pipelines/, over 97,000 miles of oil pipelines in the world, 5,000 of them in the United States. No disasters, no leaks, no damage to underground water systems. Apparently the caribou love the pipe line. They snuggle up against it during storms.
If we don’t do the pipeline, the Canadians will send their oil to China to be refined there. You trust the Chinese to use more environmentally friendly procedures? Ever heard of oil tanker disasters on the high seas?
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