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Bill USA

(6,436 posts)
Thu Nov 20, 2014, 07:51 PM Nov 2014

If Democrats thought like Republicans rather than fight any Keystone Pipeline bill they would have

... amended it to permit running the pipeline to the Twin Cities / Chicago area where there is all kinds of refining capacity AND you are close to the population center of the country.

Well, the Big Oil companies should LOVE that --- I mean, the oil IS FOR THE U.S. market ISN'T IT!

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If Democrats thought like Republicans rather than fight any Keystone Pipeline bill they would have (Original Post) Bill USA Nov 2014 OP
i thought the existing part of the pipeline already goes through that area. unblock Nov 2014 #1
Even better!! NO EXTRA EXPENSE - of building another thousand miles of pipeline!!! What's not tolike Bill USA Nov 2014 #2
yeah -- or attach an amendment raising taxes on billionaires, or repealing oil subsidies. unblock Nov 2014 #3

Bill USA

(6,436 posts)
2. Even better!! NO EXTRA EXPENSE - of building another thousand miles of pipeline!!! What's not tolike
Thu Nov 20, 2014, 08:13 PM
Nov 2014

about that Big Oil!!!

unblock

(51,973 posts)
3. yeah -- or attach an amendment raising taxes on billionaires, or repealing oil subsidies.
Thu Nov 20, 2014, 08:23 PM
Nov 2014

but the real problem is that this is going to pass the next congress pretty easily.

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