Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (100711)	9/4/2011 9:58:50 AM
From: Metacomet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

I've got mixed emotions on the pipeline fiasco. I know there are methods of producing Canadian bitumen in situ with a minimal extraction footprint. We need to bridge the transition to renewables and Canadian oil probably has the fewest negative political aspects of any source worldwide. I guess it isn't clear to me why that bitumen need to be pumped all the way to the Gulf to be processed. If the refining has to occur in the US, poke the damn line across the border with Canada and treat it in Montana somewhere. Surely we don't have to send it all the way across the US to heat it. Alternatively, if the Canadians are rubbing their hands about supplying the giant energy pig next door, they ought to refine it themselves and sell us the finished product. Mo money, mo money.......