Why Keystone?

I am not ignoring the definite damage that the CO2 from a tar sand pipeline will spew into our environment. I am not minimizing the devastation that can be caused by an oil spill or leaks to the aquifer and the soil. I understand that jobs coming from keystone will be minimum wage and temporary. TransCanada will be bringing in their current highly paid full time employees. We recognize that refineries on the Gulf Coast are located in foreign trade zones, which means TC can export Canadian oil to the world market without paying U.S. taxes. We acknowledge that the pipeline will result in gasoline price increases for the mid-west and tar sands will be exported not for US use. We discovered that the speaker of the US House of representatives is personally invested in companies involved in Keystone. Finally, we know that TC could not even give us the manufacturing of the pipes. The pipes were made in India. If they could have assembled the pipeline elsewhere like lego’s and sat it down in the US, I think they would have. We have more to learn, yet we do not minimize, nor ignore, we recognize, understand, and acknowledge XL is bad for the US…why are we still discussing it?

Congratulations To New York

I am so happy for New York State. As a Californian I was arrogant enough to believe that we would be the first the populist states. I am not belittling the accomplishments of any of the previous 6 states that got it done the right way. I guess it's a east/west thing. Not really. I will say that there were a lot of people this past pride week-end that were pumped about getting involved in the fight. I went to events in Sacramento, San Francisco and San Jose the folks were excited about the issue...again.
In my humble opinion we failed on three fronts money, Utah and god. Pro prop 8 spent a ton of money from Utah spreading lies. They scared the uninformed into believing churches would forced to marry same sex couples. Businesses would be closed, schools would have have to teach homo-cation, chaos would prevail.