Keystone XL to raise gas prices in Colorado significantly

Careful, there, LOL. We don't want anyone to think big oil is making "record" profits, now do we?

BlazerBob wrote:

ZHawke wrote:

BlazerBob wrote:

ZHawke wrote: Several news outlets are now reporting the KXL Pipeline Project may be dead. This story from Addicting Info:

www.addictinginfo.org/2014/10/14/keystone-xl-dead/

It is not about that right now. The question is will the senate dems allow Landrow a hail marry for reelection.

I'm not so sure that is the case, BlazerBob. If, in fact, the pipeline is dead in the water as far as it running right through the middle of the U.S. is concerned, might that not have a corollary effect on what's going on with Senator Landrieu? I'm relatively new to this thread, but it would still seem to me if the KXL Pipeline "goes away" (at least from a U.S. perspective), that would make a lot of the current wrangling on the issue become moot, especially as it applies to Landrieu - unless I'm missing something here.

When in doubt, follow the $. From another left wing site.

thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/11/14/359...stone-landrieu-vote/

"On Thursday, White House press secretary Josh Earnest suggested to reporters that if Congress passed a bill approving the controversial northern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline, the President’s advisers would recommend he veto it. On Friday, the President himself said the pipeline take Canadian oil and sell it “everywhere else.” The mystery of whether or not Obama would use his third veto ever to stop a congressionally-mandated pipeline approval became relevant much sooner than expected because Senate Democratic leaders agreed to allow a vote as early as next week.
The reason, theoretically, would be a symbolic attempt to underline the support that still-embattled Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Chairwoman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, has shown for the fossil fuel industry in order to boost her electoral prospects, a Senate Democratic aide told Bloomberg News. She faces a runoff election on December 6 after neither she nor her opponent, Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) cleared a majority of votes on November 4.
On Wednesday afternoon, just as the Senate began its post-midterm lame duck session, Landrieu went straight to the Senate floor to urge her colleagues to support her bill, the “Keystone XL Pipeline Approval Act.”...

AND THEN....there is this "little litigation" that is STILL out there...

www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Obscure...pipeline-5896836.php

So Mary Landrieu will get to vote for Keystone XL before her runoff and the POTUS will delay his veto until after the vote? Win-win-wine!

ZHawke wrote: Careful, there, LOL. We don't want anyone to think big oil is making "record" profits, now do we?

One could just as easily argue that the federal budget is a "record" one year after year after year on the basis that it never goes down in the same metric used to sustain the "record profits of "big oil" - dollars. Both arguments based solely on what the dollar figure is are disingenuous and deceptive ones to make. If you wish to make the argument that "big oil" (another pejorative phrase serially employed in a deceptive manner by the statists) is making an unheard of profit as a percentage of their business, which is never the argument offered, then we can have a fact based discussion on the issue, just as the federal budget needs to be examined as a percentage of the GDP instead of raw dollars in order for a fact based discussion to occur.

Record profits? Is this done in percentages? Because they usually earn between 1-10%. I once owned part of a smaller oil company that contracted to sell at $75 that year when the spot market was at $110. Ouch. Didn't earn "record profits" that year. And I bet a lot of speculators are losing their butts with oil dropping below $75 this week.

FredHayek wrote: Record profits? Is this done in percentages?......

No. Z has already conceded that on a percentage basis oil profits are pedestrian.

mymountaintown.com/forum/6-the-courthous...deral-loans?start=10

www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/us/politics/k...141118&nlid=58180576

BREAKING NEWS.....Nebraska HOLDS the key.

Failed by one vote in the Senate, BYE BYE Mary and hello to a new vote in January.

Rick wrote: Failed by one vote in the Senate, BYE BYE Mary and hello to a new vote in January.

From your lips to God's ears!

PS - Mary, don't let the door knob hit you where the good lord split'ya! You don't have to go home but you can't stay in office...

So it will be voted on again in January and President Obama will veto it? Maybe the Canadian oil company can get him a high paid post retirement speaking gig to convince the POTUS to vote for American jobs.