http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/11/17/1206031/five-reasons-why-obama-should-reject-the-keystone-xl-pipeline/
This Sunday, activists are organizing another round of protests at the White House to urge the President to kill the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. This marks the beginning of a new post-election campaign to pressure the Administration to abandon dirty fossil fuel projects. Below is a piece, written by three of the organizations leading the protests: Oil ChangeInternational, 350.org, and Bold Nebraska.In an interview with AARP, the President noted thatdoubling fuel efficiency standards on cars would produce savings equivalent to what would be pumped through Keystone XL in 45 years. In his election night speech, he warned of the “the destructive power of a warming planet.”Keystone XL is a means for reckless expansion of the tar sands industry, which is game over for the climate. The voters who re-elected Barack Obama expect him to create a legacy of action to stop climate change. Rejecting KXL would be a perfect first step to creating that legacy.
the proper studies have not been thoroughly investigated as to impact. the republicans just see more money , big oil more kick backs for favorable deregulated legislation which does not include concern for yourfamily with a giant pipe running through your back yard and you get nothing for it but possible illness. you will never see the gas made from the tar and sand it goes on international market and into EXXON-MOBIL accounts, not you corner gas station.
Given that climate change—and our country's climate legacy—are of utmost importance to the President, we've identified the top five [commonsense] reasons to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline:
1) Tar sands are "game over" for the climate. Canada's tar sands, which Keystone XL would carry, could contain double the carbon dioxide emitted by global oil use in history—and green lighting the pipeline that would carry them to the global market would be disastrous for climate change.
2) The supposed benefits of the tar sands pipeline have been overhyped. While supporters once said that the pipeline would bring gas prices down, experts agree that the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline could even increase domestic gas prices—and have little chance of lowering them. Jobs numbers, too, have been wildly inflated; TransCanada gave U.S. officials a job number that was 67 times higher than the number they used in Canada. While every U.S. job is important, the estimates on this project have ranged from 50 permanent jobs, to 2,500 temporary jobs, to TransCanada's claim of 20,000 jobs. Even unions agree that clean energy jobs outweigh this potential for temporary dirty oil jobs.
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