Interview: A bipartisan, shovel-ready jobs plan - 12-15-11

[1971texas]

You just lost 6 votes from me, my friends and family and your opponent has gain them you violated your oath by voting for the indefinite detention of American citizen without Trial. What is wrong with you people in Washington doesn’t the bill of rights mean anything to you?

[stew1tx]

I'm sorry that many people can't get past their political following to see the facts. Most of the comments here are from people that obvously have NO first hand knowledge of the Oil & Gas business nor the appurtenances that go along with it.

[loulou2lou]

I don"t

The pipeline may be the beginning of the end.The problems it farms may impact millions of Americans.Who cares what the senate thinks.Put oil only on salads not in peoples water.

[atexan1948]

@loulou2lou You actually prefer buying oil from the middle east over canada and transporting that oil half way around the earth in oil tankers and loading and unloading it in the ocean vs piping it overland? I recommend you think for yourself instead of repeating the nonsense you hear on TV

[DefilerWyrm]

"Blah blah blah I'm sucking Exxon's asshole and they literally paid me to say this." My state's reps are all gladhanding shitsacks.

[atexan1948]

@DefilerWyrm Exxon will probably get oil anyway, how would you prefer they transport it? A pipeline across a secure border over land or in tankers across the oceans and insecure routes? Please think for yourself. Which is better, not what your political party is.

[kjlundgreen]

It is a pipeline that would drastically reduce our dependence on Middle East Oil and prevent further wars to protect our energy interests. It isn't going to dump oil in any aquifer. Almost any ground you put it through above or below, will find some kind of aquifer. It is a never ending lose lose proposition to continue studies where only the people doing the studies profit.

[MichelePetty7]

The Keystone Pipeline is STUPID. It is insane to contaminate our water supply and put our health and environment at risk with this Pipeline. If the senator thinks this pipeline makes sense he has either lost his mind or is a puppet for the oil and gas industry. How much money has he received from the contractors for this project and the O&G industry????

[wormfood868]

It's rather disingenuous to say that this pipeline will help reduce dependence on the Middle East for oil since it is intended to supply oil for export, not US consumption. The claim of creating 20,000 jobs is also misleading (or a lie if you want to put it that way) that's counting per person per year (based on the most overly optimistic number) the real number is about 5000 jobs that last two years and that number is from the company that's supposed to build it.

[kjlundgreen]

@wormfood868 Itis intended for export to us, the United States. If the Keystone Pipeline is shut down, then of course they will build a pipeline to the Canadian west coast and export it to China.

[phuchue48]

From Corndog's interview, i understand that the cost of petroleum products will go down. I wonder how much and for how long?

[atexan1948]

@phuchue48 I doubt that the cost will go down but the supply will be more reliable. If you believe their is risk of leakage, I would rather it leak on land than in the ocean. We have a much better opportunity to clean up and leakage and the potential harm I believe is less.

[jjw00d60]

An informed, educated society scares politicians. Been reading about the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to Gulf of Mexico. Did you know that it requires 1,000 cubic feet (28 cubic meters) of natural gas and 55 gallons of fresh water for every barrel of crude produced from shale? On top of that, producing gasoline from this oil-sands crude spews 20 percent more carbon than refining the fuel from light crude. But hey it's all about money right? We can get our fresh water and air someplace else.

[atexan1948]

@jjw00d60 I doubt we can tell Canada not to extract their oil. If we don't want it, they will just sell it to China and I assure you they will want it, lots of it and their refining will not be nearly as cautious as our processes are. The discussion is not about extracting and refining the oil, it is about where we would like to get the oil we use, Canada or Middle East.

[KesDonahue]

Raise taxes on millionaires. They have profited mightily from this economy and they should re-pay the country- think of it as overhead. There is not hurry about the pipeline. Bad things happen when things are rushed. I suggest you and your colleagues stop loading up what should be clean bills with irrelevant issues - ie - payroll tax and pipeline.

[BurlesqueLevi]

Common sense?! Common Sense is to use existing pipeline not wasting money building a new one! Common sense is expanding the pipeline through the purposed alternate route that doesnt go through an aquifer! Common sense is looking at all the studies that show higher taxes on the rich doesnt limit economic growth and lower taxes on the rich doesnt help growth! Common sense?!? Obviously you are using a different definition of "common sense"!

[billyinc1]

Let's get the Keystone Pipeline underway.

[sameoldmax]

Since an alternate route would be acceptable why the need to cross an aquifer?

[bill77429]

That's the problem...they have no common sense....well said....

[eaglerock48]

Common sense would have told you not to combine the pipeline with the tax cut and unemployment bill

[bill77429]

Raising taxes on millionaires doesn't bother me. Running a pipeline through an aquifer does.Why you wouldn't just pass the Payroll Tax Cut extension. Go along with the pipeline study since it is going to be built anyway and fund the government. It's just too easy but you and your Republican buddies are making a political football out everything. It's time for term limitations on the Senate and House. I'll vote for that and you would be out of there.

[nolas2100]

@bill77429 Must be good cool aid!!