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In reply to the discussion: Senate endorses Keystone XL pipeline construction [View all]bhikkhu
(10,715 posts)24. You could say its consistent with the 100 year trend:
Perhaps if our grandparents had done some objecting to roads and pipelines, we might not all be driving cars, burning fuel, and building more pipelines. But, that would be a very different life.
Not that I'm in favor of Keystone, but how many people here are ready to give up using fossil fuels? Should we demand that they do so? Or should we do it sideways, kind of, by making it more and more expensive and inconvenient? I bicycle most everywhere myself, but I'd be one disappointed and unpopular person if I demanded that everyone give up their cars. Its kind of the same as Walmart - which has taken over so many retail markets simply because so many people shop there. I don't shop there, because they are terrible to their employees, but should I tell other people where to shop?
So many things are the way they are because of the choices of the majority, and, to be realistic, taking away people's choices is always going to be a hard sell. Especially to a politician.
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as far as the environment is concerned, the senate isn't concerned. They have caved.
olddad56
Mar 2013
#6
I knew that fucking asshole Warner would be on the list. Never voting for him again.
forestpath
Mar 2013
#13
Mark Warner can never be counted on to vote like a real Democrat...he is a corporate
forestpath
Mar 2013
#17
Sixty-two US Senators vote to fuck, that is fuck, the environment and the people solely for
indepat
Mar 2013
#10
"Senators Supporting KXL Took Nearly $31 Million From Fossil Fuel Industry Before Vote"
limpyhobbler
Mar 2013
#15
The difference is that people think it is still in progress. It isn't. HRC completed that deal
blm
Mar 2013
#40
Well, there was another report that said she left it on her desk for Kerry to address
Samantha
Mar 2013
#37