Obama Lies Again

Obama Lies Again...... and this time most of the Canadian press is calling him out on it.

A ‘pure fabrication’: TransCanada CEO fuels war of words over Obama’s Keystone comments
http://business.financialpost.com/2...-at-obamas-keystone-comments/?__lsa=5915-5de2

A day after a vote in the U.S. Senate to approve the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada failed, TransCanada Corp.’s top executive fuelled the war of words with pipeline opponents and President Barack Obama, saying that describing his company’s project as an export pipeline is “pure fabrication.”

“The notion that this oil is going to get exported is pure fabrication by those that are opposed to our project,” TransCanada Corp. president and CEO Russ Girling said Wednesday.


Mr. Obama, facing the prospect of Congressional legislation approving the project, had last week claimed Keystone XL was of no benefit to Americans. The pipeline was merely “providing the ability of Canada to pump their oil, send it through our land, down to the Gulf, where it will be sold everywhere else,” Obama said. “That doesn’t have an impact on U.S. gas prices.”

Mr. Obama has refused to approve the pipeline since first taking office. Last week, the House of Representatives voted to approve the pipeline, and on Tuesday, the Democratic-controlled Senate failed by a single vote to pass the same legislation.


On Tuesday, the day of the Senate vote, Mr. Girling released a statement that seemed to refute Mr. Obama’s remarks. “Last week,” Mr. Girling said, “I was surprised to read some of the remarks that were made in relation to the value of the Keystone XL pipeline to the American people.”


Mr. Girling added to that statement on Wednesday afternoon on a conference call with journalists. “It’s very highly unlikely that any of this crude leaves North America,” he said.


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The oil is going to be exported.

Ricter - time for some basic education.

Over 99% of Canada's oil exports are sent to the U.S. and used in the U.S. after refining. Canada is the largest oil supplier to the U.S.

The shale oil is already being shipped through the U.S. by rail. Shipping via the pipeline is much safer than rail. Do you want Canadian oil shipped safely to the U.S. via a pipeline or unsafely (and expensively) via rail?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves_in_Canada
 
Ricter - time for some basic education.

Over 99% of Canada's oil exports are sent to the U.S. and used in the U.S. after refining. Canada is the largest oil supplier to the U.S.

The shale oil is already being shipped through the U.S. by rail. Shipping via the pipeline is much safer than rail. Do you want Canadian oil shipped safely to the U.S. via a pipeline or unsafely (and expensively) via rail?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves_in_Canada

Careful, Ricter is trying to get you on a technicality. It is technically exported from Canada, isn't it?
 
Careful, Ricter is trying to get you on a technicality. It is technically exported from Canada, isn't it?

Does it leave North America? No.

Obama trying to claim that the KeyStone XL pipeline will cause the Canadian oil to be exported overseas and that the Canadian oil will not be used in America -- is an absurd fabrication. We should expect the leader of a major nation to be more truthful.
 
Careful, Ricter is trying to get you on a technicality. It is technically exported from Canada, isn't it?
Hehe, good catch, but sadly no. Neither did I mean every last dollop of it would be exported (from the US), either. Much, and probably sooner rather than later, most of it will be. In the context of rising US production, power generation shifting (too slowly) to natural gas, and little incentive to add refinery capacity, the future of tar sands crude is likely overseas.
 
Hehe, good catch, but sadly no. Neither did I mean every last dollop of it would be exported (from the US), either. Much, and probably sooner rather than later, most of it will be. In the context of rising US production, power generation shifting (too slowly) to natural gas, and little incentive to add refinery capacity, the future of tar sands crude is likely overseas.

But that will happen regardless of the pipeline. At the end of the day, the oil will get where it is needed and will be paid for, just the like refined gas. It's just a matter of whether it will end up with a higher price tag to the end consumer.
 
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