Tour at Anti-Pipeline Meeting in Lincoln, Nebraska

[lostbuffalo]

If the pipeline cannot be stopped I think it's essential for each state to tax the pipeline as taxable property, or declare the pipeline route to be a public highway and tax the pipeline that way. The oil being transported cannot be taxed but the private infrastructure used to transport the oil can. the tax dollars can be used to pay for state oversight and code inspection of the line. if the tax bill doesn't get paid the state can impound the oil and sell it. many other remedies

[lostbuffalo]

Canada has mountains east and west. North-south is the cheapest route for them to get their oil to refineries so it can be sold on the world market. but not the only route. pipelines do currently go through and over mountains and Arctic wilderness.

[lostbuffalo]

A pipeline from Canada to the gulf is a make-work project for the oil conglomerates. it adds an unnecessary stage of production in a monoply as an excuse to justify increased energy costs. It's the same thing that happens when a trucking broker sends 12 trucks on the same route making 12 stops when they could have sent one truck to each of the 12 locations. The broker charges extra for each stop and the per mile rate of each short leg stop to stop is higher than the long distance rate.

[lostbuffalo]

The most dangerous thing to their agenda is losing monopoly. It's why you have not heard any conversation about refining the oil up north and trucking the products south. DO THE MATH. a gallon of diesel weighs 8lbs a semi tanker can haul in excess of 5,000 gallons of diesel. The entire trip will cost at the most $2 per mile. transport cost per gallon from Winnipeg Ca to Kansas City Ks (814 mile) is only .32 per gallon and this you pay anyway when they truck it up from the gulf

[lostbuffalo]

we don't need a pipeline... if you want jobs we need to refine the oil up north and truck it south. we already have refineries up north. Casper Wyoming has some of the cheapest fuel in the nation. why would you bypass the heartland to refine the oil in the gulf? they don't want people in the upper midwest to have their own energy sources. if we can buy some of our oil from a competitior then we can buy ALL of our oil from a competitor. The oil pipeline it's about protecting a monopoly not jobs

[susanshikadang]

I'm so proud of these Americans! True salt of the earth, intelligent, and fighting for our safety. We need more people like this who research the issues and care enough to speak up.

[OnenessNow]

Question??? Why not arrest the Corporations that are breaking the Clean Air, Water and Soil Acts of our Environmental Laws of America. Big Oil equal Big Lies.

Watch the movie GASHOLE and learn how Big Oil has suppressed the BEST fuel technologies from the American public.

UNITE in PEACE to end all wars across Earth and develop RENEWABLE ENERGY NOW.

Solar, Magnetic, Wind Turbine, Geo Thermal and Hydro Kinetic for all the generations to come will be the BEST USE of our unlimited resources.

PEACE

[suthnautr]

Thanks to all of the people in this video and to all of those arrested. Thanks to all of the organizers, the videographers working tirelessly and often without pay, the film editors, the groups and coalition organizers and most importantly to the participants who came from miles and miles around to protest peacefully to make this a priority in their lives & risk arrest. This is NOT the 60's and the hippies and yippies and flower power - this is middle America - citizens fighting for what's right

[suthnautr]

In America they teach us about and speak about "The Founding Fathers". They were a group of men who weren't "Of The Government" because there was no US Government. They were people, just like us, who wanted to to make this land a better place for the people. They, the founding fathers, were people just like you and I. We, were we to be living in that period, would be equal to them - equal to the founding fathers - and today we are the founding fathers. Our intent now is to have a government...

[suthnautr]

...answerable to us, responsible to us, and acting as our own agents employed and paid by us to perform a job. That job is to look out for our own interests and to protect both our present our our future for us, for our children, and for our grand children's future for the foreseeable future to come. They are to act as our employees and to take our thoughts, our dreams and our goals and represent them as their own with the utmost seriousness. Instead they arrest us, investigate us, threaten us.