You know that Keystone XL project that Zero rejected recently? The project that would have created thousands of jobs and reduced our dependence on Middle-Eastern oil? The one that David Sassoon whined would give lots of eeeeevil profits to the eeeeevil Koch brothers?
Well, care to guess who benefits from the cancellation of the Keystone XL project?
Warren Buffett, whom President Obama likes to cite as a fair-minded billionaire while arguing for higher taxes on the wealthy, stands to benefit from the president’s decision to reject the Keystone XL oil pipeline permit.
Mr. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. owns Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC, which is among the railroads that would transport oil produced in western Canada if the pipeline isn’t built.
“Whatever people bring to us, we’re ready to haul,” Krista York-Wooley, a spokeswoman for Burlington Northern, a unit of Buffett’s Omaha, Neb.-based Berkshire Hathaway Inc., told Bloomberg News. If Keystone XL “doesn’t happen, we’re here to haul,” she said.
Yeah, I bet you’re ready to haul it.
Interesting that the administration would nix a project that would create jobs and provide a much better alternative to the energy sources we’re currently using on environmental grounds, while the existing alternative (conveniently belonging to an important supporter) is actually much less environmentally sound.
Things that make you say, “hmmmmmmmmmm.”
Jan 25, 2012 @ 19:20:08
The only People not for this are idiots who believe Alex jones. That how I hear about it. He worst than I am. Conspiracy theories are, to me, the intelligential equal of porn!
Jan 26, 2012 @ 09:15:46
Until the public pulls it’s head out of it’s backside and wakes up to the corruption (crony capitalism) of so many in government we will never get America going again. It just amazes me how easily the political rhetoric from politicians as well as the press keeps the lambs busy at calling one another names over being a Republican or a Democrat. Republican and Democratic ideologies are not the problem. Corruption is the problem along with our inability to recognize it and/or our non interest in doing something about it. ** I wonder what we should expect of our politicians but to be mirrors of ourselves. Mirrors of a society capable of denying themselves nothing and motivated only by money, sex and power. We are pathetic.
Jan 26, 2012 @ 18:30:39
I recall reading a Canadian on-line paper, they quoted a business type to the effect of “If the Americans don’t want our oil, the Chinese do.”