President Held Hostage By Environmentalists

Obama doesn't want to build the Keystone pipeline because he's an environmentalist. That's fine, I guess. Everyone's entitled to their preferences and priorities.

I guess that he's got global warming (oops, I mean climate change) as a higher priority than creating jobs. Just don't tell me that he's focused on creating jobs. Because he's not.

You know what his real focus is? He's focused on doing everything he can to get a Democrat controlled House next year, and pleasing the environmentalists is his way of shoring up his base. If he allows this pipeline to be built, they'll stay home on election day.

Here's the other thing. The President says that he doesn't want to build the pipeline because it will lead to carbon emissions. Fine, assuming arguendo that everything he says is true, and that carbon emissions will result from the pipeline, and that the world will die a fiery death because of the pipeline. So what?

Canada has a bunch of oil that they want to refine. Do you think if we say no, that they'll just stop? Maybe the Canadians will just build some more refineries in Canada. Also, you don't think the Chinese (or some other country) would be happy to refine the oil? The Canadians could just build a pipeline to British Columbia, and Chinese supertankers get the oil, take it over to China, and then refine it. The oil is going to get to market. That's a guarantee.  And the carbon emissions in the hypothetical that I've described are more than if we just send it down to Louisiana. The only question is whether the USA will be involved.

I just want the President who doesn't think many jobs will be created by this pipeline tell me about all the solar and wind jobs that he's created.