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Tar sands pipeline will comfort our enemies

The Hill -- As the military’s senior logistician in Iraq in 2006 and 2007, I saw the impact of our oil addition in the Iraq combat zone. Our appetite for fuel wastes billions of taxpayer dollars, transfers $1 billion daily in our wealth to the Middle East, and puts our soldiers at risk. The fuel trucks we depend upon provide hundreds of convenient rolling targets for our enemy. My experiences in Iraq convinced me that the greatest threat to our security is our over-reliance on oil and that Americans must immediately take steps to cut our petro-addiction before it’s too late.

The Keystone XL pipeline doesn’t help. This pipeline would move dirty oil from Canada to refineries in Texas and would set back our renewable energy efforts for at least two decades, much to our enemies’ delight. It would ens

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LQQKGAS Champion Author Phoenix Posts:1,485 Points:852,980 Joined:Oct 2009	Message Posted: Feb 7, 2012 10:27:35 PM Ignore LQQKGAS Report Abuse That's what we want, to make our enemies comfy
johnnyg1200 Champion Author St. Louis Posts:1,519 Points:305,460 Joined:May 2011	Message Posted: Feb 7, 2012 6:32:59 PM Ignore johnnyg1200 Report Abuse It is amazing the arguments the greenies will come up with to stop something they don’t like. Until we find an economic green energy source we are stuck with oil. So the question is do we keep depending on our enemy’s or buy oil from a country that is friendly to us. The government has flushed billions of tax payer dollars down the drain with no real success. Either way we will need to keep buying oil until we find a solution that won’t devastate the economy.
ktbaeohana Champion Author Las Vegas Posts:1,183 Points:264,170 Joined:Mar 2010	Message Posted: Feb 7, 2012 5:31:09 PM Ignore ktbaeohana Report Abuse That is true, in till we do for us self that means do not depend on other country for oil do it yourself.
SkyWarnTX All-Star Author Texas Posts:945 Points:56,845 Joined:Jan 2012	Message Posted: Feb 7, 2012 4:48:44 PM Ignore SkyWarnTX Report Abuse TAR is not OIL... it takes a POLITICIAN working for BIG OIL to make TAR something that it is not.Canada keeps its TAR SANDS, and the U.S. keeps it CLEAN WATER AQUAFIERS...There is a GLUT of OIL in the U.S. and the U.S. is EXPORTING GASOLINE...BIG OIL wants a CHEAP way to EXPORT even more REFINED GASOLINE for PROFITS... There is NO GASOLINE SHORTAGE... only an over abundance of BIG OIL CORPORATE GREED...
hoosierva All-Star Author Indianapolis Posts:983 Points:240,525 Joined:Jul 2011	Message Posted: Feb 7, 2012 4:01:50 PM Ignore hoosierva Report Abuse we do not produce to feed ourselves, we produce to export to make more money. sometimes you have to ask yourself, when is enough enough.
K9LO Champion Author North Dakota Posts:1,417 Points:307,940 Joined:Nov 2010	Message Posted: Feb 7, 2012 3:08:41 PM Ignore K9LO Report Abuse The US is an exporter of oil. The oil companies sees only the bottom line and greed will prevail.
RochBear Champion Author Minnesota Posts:9,123 Points:1,518,780 Joined:May 2006	Message Posted: Feb 7, 2012 2:58:20 PM Ignore RochBear Report Abuse I do like the first paragraph. And I believe we MUST curb our addiction to oil. Although Electric cars (using Hydrogen fuel cells) is probably the best overall solution, the ability of this nation to produce that much hydrogen fuel (in a clean way) has yet to be shown feasible. Wind and solar are great, but we need power at night too. The problem is there is currently not a single solution. I think the best overall solution is to use Wind/solar power to create hydrogen fuel. Then you need a distribution system for the hydrogen fuel, which will not be easy, since it's very hard to contain hydrogen (the smallest molecule will leak out of any container), and thus hard to store it for any length of time. [Edited by: RochBear at 2/7/2012 3:02:06 PM EST]
TheThorn Sophomore Author South Carolina Posts:174 Points:601,220 Joined:Sep 2008	Message Posted: Feb 7, 2012 2:42:29 PM Ignore TheThorn Report Abuse really don't think there is just one single solution to our oil probs. solution will be a mix of some kind. we just need to hope that someone will be smart enough to figure it out.
djwhit Champion Author Ohio Posts:1,337 Points:867,055 Joined:Jul 2009	Message Posted: Feb 7, 2012 2:08:34 PM Ignore djwhit Report Abuse USA WELL DO ITS THING.............
Edpap Champion Author Pennsylvania Posts:1,582 Points:153,000 Joined:Oct 2011	Message Posted: Feb 7, 2012 2:03:02 PM Ignore Edpap Report Abuse You obviously have not seen all the articles claiming the USA is an oil exporter, not importer. We export more than we import. Big oil only buys mid east production to make more $$ on what they pump domestically. One breakthrough in technology will give us alternate fuel or all electric vehicles and put crude oil in the same category as whale oil.
humblepie Champion Author Toledo Posts:17,405 Points:2,011,270 Joined:Mar 2006	Message Posted: Feb 7, 2012 1:23:24 PM Ignore humblepie Report Abuse after throwing trillions down the alternative crapper i think dirty oil is our bridge to freedom from opec.
doeslayersr Champion Author Illinois Posts:5,831 Points:512,150 Joined:Dec 2010	Message Posted: Feb 7, 2012 1:23:23 PM Ignore doeslayersr Report Abuse To the contrary, not building the pipeline will further weaken this great Republic which then directly and indirectly gives comfort and reassurance to our enemies that they have "friends" working inside our government to destroy this great country.