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| Not satisfied with just crippling America's democracy, the greedy Koch brothers want to destroy America's environment as well. (Keystone XL Pipeline Protest at White House, Nov. 6, 2011 - Photo by tarsandsaction) |
By Eric Zuesse
Keystone XL Pipeline wouldn't contribute to U.S.
energy-production, but instead to exports of the global-warming-dirtiest
oil, from Canada, to Europe and South America. It would transport Alberta
Canada's tar-sands oil -- half of which is owned by the Kochs --
south to two Koch-owned refineries near the Texas Gulf Coast for transshipment
mainly to Europe. President Obama is thus trying to get Europe to relax its anti-global-warming
standards to permit their importation of this oil, which is
the world's absolute worst oil from the global-warming
standpoint.
Furthermore, "Currently, most Canadian tar sands
exports are mainly limited to the U.S. Midwest market by a lack of
transportation infrastructure." This fact (the lack of "infrastructure" or
transportation facilities to move the oil to the international market) keeps
down not only the price the Kochs can get for their oil (since it can't currently
be sold on the international market); it also greatly lowers the sheer volume
of it that they can sell (at any price), because the local Midwest oil market
is small. Keystone XL would thus also enormously increase the annual sales-volume of this currently deeply
landlocked oil.
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