So, Oil barons just threatened the President of the U.S.

Speaking at a conference this week - Jack Gerard - the head of the American Petroleum Institute - which is the nation's largest lobbying organization for oil and gas corporations - told President Obama, "I think it would be a huge mistake on the part of the president of the United States to deny the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline...Clearly, the Keystone XL pipeline is in the national interest. A determination to decide anything less than that I believe will have huge political consequences." Do what the oil barons say - build the damn pipeline - or suffer "huge political consequences." The sad part is - in today's post Citizens United world - we have to take these threats seriously

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[inrrivas]

dear barons,

thank you for making me and my country look like ignorant people who are oil addicts

hate, myself

[SludgeMcPoople]

... Earth to progressives (and Obama)... and if the president okays the Keystone Pipeline, Big Oil will spend billions to defeat him and try to destroy liberalism and the social safety net anyway. So, Mr. President, what do you have to lose? Screw Big Oil!

[Stiletos]

@cemott3rd It is called the Gateway Pipeline.

[cemott3rd]

@Stiletos You go, we don't want to take the ecological chance of polluting our aquafer, meanwhile you'd have to get it over the Rockies.

[SuperTurbo1200]

@inrrivas "I agree" I drive a car, heat my house, every product in my house is made with oil and I realize that every business in the world requires an oil source in some way or another. But I'm not addicted to oil.... I just feel nice and fuzzy when I say I'm against oil LOL. We are a bunch of drug addicts screaming for the heads of our drug dealers. But no one thinks about what will happen when all of a sudden there isn't snuff drugs to go around !

[Stiletos]

I hope we don't build the pipeline, I hope we instead build the facilities to refine the oil here in Canada, pipeline it to our own ports in British Columbia, and sell it to whoever wants to buy it as a finished product. American's were offered a piece of the pie, you rejected it so be it. Canada should simply start looking out for its own interests and create all of the jobs and wealth that extraction, refinement, and sales of the product will create FOR CANADA. Forget Houston, we have Calgary.

[savitonni]

Are you kidding me, when the president himself threatens seniors and the military with cuts if congress don't pass a "MORE SPENDING" bill... and raise the debt ceiling. ?? What are you talking about ? He didn't threaten to do physical harm to obama..... THAT would be upsetting and prosecutable by law...

All he is trying to do is set the stage for communism in America.... level the playing (income) field... Not what I want and I'm not rich by any means...

[QuartuvLarry]

What? Do we REALLY give a damn about the president?

[jamestrueblooddet207]

Okay Mr. Marx oh yeah Capitalism has ruined America this video is ignorant you people have know common sense.

[tomitstube]

excellent video, send this to the white house, just look up "contact the white house." it easy to send a video.

interesting how the oil barons call their profits "national interest". wouldn't it be nice if for once the cia actually worked for the american people and not corporations?

[jlynnwm]

It's all about the MONEY.... • “The United States does export about one million barrels per day of oi and oil products: almost none of this is crude oil.” I believe that oil companies ship oil abroad just to keep the price up

[sjfire72]

Oil is not just about cars and trucks people. The electronics your typing on, the phones you talk on the bags for IV fluids in the hospital, the plastics and all oil based products are made from this so NO WE CAN NOT JUST STOP USING THEM!