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To: average joe who wrote (22766)	3/12/2012 11:04:08 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

That sounds pretty cogent. The money involved is HUGE!!! There is some fallout and I am fully in support of intense opposition for that reason! Even when the opposition is not perfectly right...they prevent outright despotism and that is really what it is about. When you used the word "balance" I went there because that is the deal from every angle. I oppose almost everything as a matter of principle. :-)

To: average joe who wrote (22766)	3/13/2012 3:59:13 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

They are not building the pipeline with a primary objective of creating jobs......they are building it to transport more oil to market, ie to make more money. Problem is tar sands oil is very expensive compared to regular crude obtained from conventional drilling.....therefore if tar sands oil is to be profitable, the cost of oil must remain high enough to generate a profit; funny thing is conservatives rant on about needing tar sands oil to keep gasoline prices low.... Few have noticed but the US recently has been exporting more oil products than we are importing....how do we eliminate our foreign oil dependency doing that? "U.S. Petroleum Product Exports Exceeded Imports in 2011 For First Time in Over Six Decades " crudeoiltrader.blogspot.com "U.S. exported more gasoline than imported last year" content.usatoday.com