Mr. Obama's Easy Call on Keystone Bill

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Author(s)	The New York Times editorial board
Source	The New York Times
Date	February 13, 2015
URL	http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/opinion/mr-obamas-easy-call-on-keystone-bill.html
Quote	One reason is that tar sands oil yields roughly 17 percent more greenhouse gases than conventional crude oil. A bigger reason is that there is so much of it — 170 billion barrels recoverable with today’s technology and maybe 10 times that amount in potential resources. Mainstream climate scientists are virtually unanimous in saying that as much as two-thirds of the world’s deposits of fossil fuels must remain in the ground if climate disaster is to be avoided. Alberta’s tar sands oil should be among the first such deposits we decide to leave alone.

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This item argues against the position Pipeline should be built on the topic Keystone XL pipeline.