Greetings to all of you striving to keep the Keystone XL Pipeline from becoming a disastrous reality.
My name is Aldous C. Tyler, and I am gearing up my campaign to challenge President Barack Obama for the Democratic Nomination for President of the United States of America during the Primary and Caucus season of 2012. I believe very strongly that TransCanada's pipeline has three very basic problems with it, any one of which would be sufficient for me to reject it, were it my choice:
1) We are already seeing marked effects in the intensity and severity of our weather patterns, as well as tremendous ice cap melting and other undeniable effects due to the human-induced Climate Crisis. There is simply no reasonable excuse to unlock vast quantities of yet more carbon from earth's resources, especially with such horrid methods as Tar Sands extraction requires.
2) We know very well that this won't do a thing to ease the economic woes of We the People. Wall Street "Speculators" drive the price of the resources already on the market to the point where the cost to us, the end users, has no relation at all to the logic of supply and demand. Adding more supply will not sate their greed, and we'll be left spewing more carbon into an already straining atmosphere at no benefit to our bottom line.
3) Finally, we are talking about an oil pipeline that will, even in first phase, cross sensitive aquifers throughout the midwestern United States, as well as the Missouri River and the Mississppi River, all of which provide many millions of Americans with the water they need to live. Oil pipelines leak. That is simply a fact of life. In but one example, this summer an oil pipeline in Montana burst just weeks after an inspection and federal review declared it to be fine, spilling many thousands of gallons of crude oil into the Yellowstone River. Tar Sands Bitumen is one of the most toxic forms of crude oil, and leaks, bursts and other common pipeline issues over these precious water sources is completely unacceptable.
My intention is to be placed in as many Democratic Party primaries and caucuses as possible, to hold President Barack Obama accountable for his promises of "change". Championing oil corporations over the interests of We the People is not change, it's a continuation of Bush-era thinking. We need this to stop now. There is no other means that will get his attention like a challenge from within his own party process for his very job.
If you are just as frustrated as I am, that the President seems mired in the "three C's" of Corporatism, Continuation and Capitulation, then go to http://AmericaChangesToday.com/ and help me wake him up to the perils of the path he's allowing this great nation to careen down.
America Changes Today,
Aldous C. Tyler
http://AmericaChangesToday.com/