Percolating in the background, obscured by shutdown hostage shenanigans and gloating over rebublican civil strife, remains the Keystone Pipline and tar sands money pits.
Tell, KOSites, has anyone learned on the topic heard of any proposals to build refineries on the tar sands beachs of Canada and they export the value added products? That would avoid piping of the heavy bituminum sludges that are impossible to clean up after inevitable leaks, breaks and spews.
Of course, refining tar sands in northern Canada has plenty of environmental disaster potential. And burning the refined products will be a huge CO2 problem. but seriously, with the demand and the dollars in play, there is very little chance that politicians up north or down here will have the will or the power to stop it.
Maybe piping the lighter, refined products has been considered?
Just wondering - I am not saying I back this idea. Better to let the bituminum lie, sez I.