Rejecting the Keystone pipeline is an act of insanity

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Author(s) Robert J. Samuelson
Source The Washington Post
Date January 19, 2012
URL http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rejecting-the-keystone-pipeline-is-an-act-of-insanity/2012/01/19/gIQAowG6AQ_story.html
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Quotes-start.png The big winners are the Chinese. They must be celebrating their good fortune and wondering how the crazy Americans could repudiate such a huge supply of nearby energy. There’s no guarantee that tar-sands oil will go to China; pipelines to the Pacific would have to be built. But it creates the possibility when the oil’s natural market is the United States. Quotes-end.png


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