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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP Senators Take Emergency Oil Reserve Hostage to Force Keystone Approval
GOP Senators Take Emergency Oil Reserve Hostage to Force Keystone Approval
Republican Congressional leaders have failed to force President Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. But thats not stopping them from trying over and over again, taking hostages in the process.
First they used the payroll tax cut extension as a vehicle to force a decision on the pipeline in sixty days, even before the final route was identified.President Obama was forced to disapprove the permit because there was no time to assess its potential pollution.
This week, several senators took a different hostage: our emergency oil supply. On February 13, Senators David Vitter (R-LA), John Hoevan (R-ND), and Richard Lugar (R-IN) introduced theStrategic Petroleum Supplies Act, S. 2100 that would prevent President Obama from selling oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve unless Keystone is approved:
the Administration shall not authorize a sale of petroleum products from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
until the date on which all permits necessary
for the Keystone XL pipeline project application filed on September 19, 2008 (including amendments) have been issued.
In other words, unless the president approves Keystone, he cannot sell our emergency oil even if Iran causes an oil supply disruption in the Strait of Hormuz, a hurricane or other disaster disables oil production or refining facilities, or any other type of event causes gasoline prices to soar above $4 per gallon. If any of these events happen, middle class Americans would pay significantly higher gasoline pump prices, giving billions of dollars more to big oil companies that made record profits last year. ..............(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/790838/gop_senators_take_emergency_oil_reserve_hostage_to_force_keystone_approval/
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GOP Senators Take Emergency Oil Reserve Hostage to Force Keystone Approval (Original Post)
marmar
Feb 2012
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1ProudAtheist
(346 posts)1. Good Luck On That One
I am reminded of a saying my daddy used to use........he would say that trying to do something that was impossible was akin to "pissing up a rope".
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)2. What's Obama going to do? I'm sure he'll be able to reach a compromise.
wow they really want to get at that mfing tarsands oil.
msongs
(67,458 posts)3. he will veto the bill like he vetoed the union busting FAA legislation...oh never mind nt
jimlup
(7,968 posts)4. These Reptilians are the open servants of the oil industry's plutocracy /nt
DCKit
(18,541 posts)5. I thought blackmail, even that enshrined in the law, was still illegal in the U.S..
Silly me.