Tar Sands Oil Pipeline would Violate Bush-Era Pollution Law

[The Straight Story]

Tar Sands Oil Pipeline would Violate Bush-Era Pollution Law

The Obama administration, which supports the end of global warming, has embraced a petroleum project that would help produce oil so bad for the planet that the oil-friendly administration of George W. Bush outlawed its use in the United States.

That’s the political turnabout surrounding the Keystone XL pipeline, which is intended to transport tar-sands oil from Canada across the U.S. to refineries in Texas. Tar sands oil is considered one of the “dirtiest” sources of petroleum on earth, loaded with so much carbon that the extraction and use of the Canadian resource could make it almost impossible to reverse the impact of global warming anytime soon, according to some scientists.

Tar sands oil was essentially outlawed for use in the U.S. when President Bush approved section 526 of the Energy Independence and National Security Act of 2007. Section 526 prohibits the government—the largest fuel purchaser in America—from using taxpayer dollars to purchase fuels that have a higher carbon footprint than conventional oil (namely, tar-sands petroleum).

And yet the Obama administration is seriously considering approval of the Keystone project and allowing the carbon-laden oil to enter the country.

http://www.allgov.com/Top_Stories/ViewNews/Tar_Sands_Oil_Pipeline_would_Violate_Bush_Era_Pollution_Law_110921

[Township75]

1. It's difficult to work this into the pro-left political view, so my guess is that this thread will..

drop like a rock.

Now if the title were Bush Era Environmental Law Allows Tar Sands Pipeline, then this place would be HOPPING!!!

[dkf]

2. Well since we have greedily used up the easily accessible oil, this is where we have to go

This country is completely unserious about converting to renewables and the botched investment in solyndra is inexcusable.

Someone has seriously dropped the ball so yes we will be stuck with using these types of energy resource.

[enough]

3. I didn't know that about section 526. Thanks. (nt)

[disndat]

4. Obama has lost his mind.

He needs to regroup. The Republican Tea Party maneuvers must be getting too much for him.