Poll: 64% opposed to pipeline (Keystone oil sand & Senate poll on Ben Nelson)

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Paul Hammel

LINCOLN — A new poll sponsored by a group opposing the Keystone XL crude-oil pipeline indicated that 63 percent of those surveyed were against or leaned against the controversial project.

The poll, commissioned by BOLD Nebraska and released Monday, also indicated how wide-open the 2012 race is for U.S. Senate.

Incumbent Sen. Ben Nelson’s favorable rating was 46 percent.

Among registered Republicans, 46 percent of those responding said they were undecided about which candidate they would support in the spring 2012 primary election.

Read more: http://www.omaha.com/article/20110919/NEWS01/110919704/0#poll-64-opposed-to-pipeline

[tblue]

1. 64% of all the wrong people, I guess.

:(

[defendandprotect]

2. Simply more of the Obama administration ignoring the WILL OF THE PEOPLE -- !!

[DeSwiss]

4. In addition to ignoring the intent of the law prohibiting the use of this nasty shit......

The Keystone XL pipeline, recently approved by the US State Department and awaiting President Obama’s declaration that it is in the “national interest,” will carry oil that is too dirty for the US government to buy — under legislation signed by George W. Bush!

In 2007, President Bush signed into law Section 526 of the Energy Independence and National Security Act of 2007. It prohibits the US government, which is the largest single fuel purchaser in the U.S., from using taxpayer dollars to purchase fuels that have a higher carbon footprint than conventional oil.

This little-known law is significant because Congress crafted it, in part, with the explicit intent to block the US from buying Canadian tar sands oil — considered the dirtiest oil on the planet. With President Obama currently debating whether to authorize the construction of the Keystone Pipeline — which will funnel tar sands oil from Alberta into the the US — and more than 1000 activists arrested in front of the White House last month in protest the pipeline, the issue has moved to the front and center of the climate debate in recent weeks.

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So our government, who can't even legally buy this nasty shit, should not be in the business of encouraging the use of this filthy crap. Nor the continuation, expansion or the furthering this stupid-ass century-old, self-defeating OIL-PARADIGM. And particularly not doing so while risking the contamination our air, soils and rivers just for the purpose of enriching a handful of oil fat-cats!!! So it'll be interesting to see how Obama contorts himself (and all reason) into some kind of human-pretzel in order to "bi-partisan" his way around into approving this. Because if it's one thing we should've learned by now, it's how Obama just loves to "out-Bush" Bush so he can show the Repukes what a swell guy he truly is. I'm not encouraged.

- "Hey Obama, there is no "up" side for you here. Because they're still going to hate your guts whether you approve this stupid shit or not......"

K&R

[defendandprotect]

6. Thanks for the specifics on all of this -- Bad stuff -- !!

You think Obama is doing this 'cause he wants to be loved by anti-environmentalists?

[DeSwiss]

7. No, not anti-environmentalist love. At this point it's all about the money. :-/ n/t

[OmahaBlueDog]

3. I'd be a little dubious. I'm not sure 64% of Nebraskans oppose the pipeline as much as .....

...the proposed route. If the route were out of the sand hills -- say 20-40 miles east, I suspect those opposition numbers would drop.

[midnight]

5. K&R

[boppers]

8. Why don't they just refine on-site?

What's the point of the pipeline?