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[justthefacts]

History's greatest monster

 

[Spoofin]

What exactly is it that you think the Keystone pipeline does?

Transports oil at about 1/2 the cost of doing it via rail.

 

[justthefacts]

Transports oil at about 1/2 the cost of doing it via rail.

How does it decrease our dependence on foreign oil?

 

[Spoofin]

How does it decrease our dependence on foreign oil?

Somehow I feel you are playing a game here.
Cheaper oil from the pipeline means less imported oil.
Less imported oil means less dependence on it for our needs.
I'm done playing.

 

[justthefacts]

Somehow I feel you are playing a game here.
Cheaper oil from the pipeline means less imported oil.
Less imported oil means less dependence on it for our needs.
I'm done playing.

All the oil from the pipeline is imported.

 

[Spoofin]

All the oil from the pipeline is imported.

Aww - you are going with Canadian oil is foreign oil. See, I knew you were playing a game.
You got me JTF. I was refering to oil we get shipped to the Gulf and should have been more precise with what I meant by "foreign", because - sure enough - Canada is not America.
Of course, you knew what I meant, but..... To. The. Core.

 

[Angry]

I see we’re back to hating Israel again. Wtg let’s start stirring shit up in the Middle East again day 1.

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[MplsGopher]

To be fair though, isn't the oil from Canada extra difficult to refine into gasoline? It's "tar sands" or something like that. Obviously it's worth something to someone, to build a pipeline for it to shipping.

 

[From the Parkinglot]

So it is bad, but we need it so we should just keep heading toward the cliff? There are other energy technologies we can develop. Believe it or not, there are plenty of jobs to be created in renewable energy.

It is almost as if culture in this country has chosen to try and freeze itself in 1980. America used to be all about innovation and pushing forward. Now it is just too much of a hassle. Good grief.

That’s great you let me know how fun it is to have an electric car and want to make a drive from Minneapolis to Chicago without stopping to refuel the batteries for several hours. Plus where do you think that power is coming from to refuel the batteries, a coal fired power plant somewhere. Until the us decides to build more nuclear power plants electric cars are not the answer. Also I’m not so sure the making of batteries is all the environmentally or socially friendly either.

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[From the Parkinglot]

To be fair though, isn't the oil from Canada extra difficult to refine into gasoline? It's "tar sands" or something like that. Obviously it's worth something to someone, to build a pipeline for it to shipping.

Yes it’s low grade petroleum, but I assume they will use every last drop of it in some capacity all the way down to the tar that’s is used on shingles and flat roofs.

 

[MplsGopher]

That’s great you let me know how fun it is to have an electric car and want to make a drive from Minneapolis to Chicago without stopping to refuel the batteries for several hours. Plus where do you think that power is coming from to refuel the batteries, a coal fired power plant somewhere. Until the us decides to build more nuclear power plants electric cars are not the answer. Also I’m not so sure the making of batteries is all the environmentally or socially friendly either.

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At the moment, it's just not possible, because they're so damn physically large and heavy (and fully integrated into the chasis for safety and keeping optimal temperature), but the thing to do would be to swap the battery packs out.

Maybe we'll get there.

Or maybe some other technology will win out, that is zero emissions and similar refill/recharge time as gasoline? I know people have talked for a long time about hydrogen fuel cells.

 

[justthefacts]

Aww - you are going with Canadian oil is foreign oil. See, I knew you were playing a game.
You got me JTF. I was refering to oil we get shipped to the Gulf and should have been more precise with what I meant by "foreign", because - sure enough - Canada is not America.
Of course, you knew what I meant, but..... To. The. Core.

A) Yes, clearly it's all my fault that I consider Canadian oil to be foreign oil.

B) The US is a next exporter of oil. We're not dependent on foreign oil.

C) I'm not sure which foreign oil exactly you consider to be the bad stuff, but it may surprise you to know that of the ~230M barrels we do import every month, ~120M barrels are already coming from Canada. In fact, we only get ~20M barrels from OPEC states. https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_impcus_a2_nus_ep00_im0_mbbl_m.htm

D) According to the company that wants to build the pipeline, TC Energy, Keystone would bring in 830k barrels per day. Let's say those barrels' transpo costs are reduced by 1/2, and let's say that 1/2 of oil costs are transpo costs (both of those seem very high.) In that case that means we'll reduce the overall cost of our Canadian oil by 0.5*0.5*(830,000 / (120,000,000 / 30)) = 5%. Not sure that's going to move the needle on foreign energy independence.

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[Plausible Deniability]

Apparently the border wall is one of the things that took a hit. Another moronic move.

I'm sure the optics look good, but I've heard from several people that for a number of the projects it will cost more to shut them down then it would to just finish the God damn work. But hey, Joe thinks it LOOKS good to the blind masses, and we'll never see the costs associated with just finishing the work, not to mention another bunch of 10's of thousands of folks on the unemployment line.

Getting off to a great start, for sure...

 

[justthefacts]

I see we’re back to hating Israel again. Wtg let’s start stirring shit up in the Middle East again day 1.

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Why does "recognizing that there are disputed territories" = "hating Israel?"

 

[justthefacts]

Apparently the border wall is one of the things that took a hit. Another moronic move.

I'm sure the optics look good, but I've heard from several people that for a number of the projects it will cost more to shut them down then it would to just finish the God damn work. But hey, Joe thinks it LOOKS good to the blind masses, and we'll never see the costs associated with just finishing the work, not to mention another bunch of 10's of thousands of folks on the unemployment line.

Getting off to a great start, for sure...

The funding for the border wall was unconstitutional.

 

[LesBolstad]

If nothing else, this should be a humorous- what 6 to 10 months?

 

[MplsGopher]

So, dumb question: why do they even want the pipeline on American soil? Is it because Duluth has necessary shipping infrastructure that isn't built in, say, Thunder Bay? And the next closest equivalent port (US or Canadian) would add hundreds of miles to the pipeline?

 

[MplsGopher]

If nothing else, this should be a humorous- what 6 to 10 months?

I doubt that's what it was.

I will say, last night when they did the opening of the Tom Hanks hosted thing, and they walked into the Lincoln memorial and the camera went to him, he was like " .... Hellloooowwwwww ........... [awkward beat]"

As I said, comedians will have nothing to be worried about.

 

[LesBolstad]

You can actually hear it. Real life this:

 

[scools12]

If nothing else, this should be a humorous- what 6 to 10 months?

I hope that’s not what happened. This guy needs to make it through the next 4 years.

 

[Wally]

Aww - you are going with Canadian oil is foreign oil. See, I knew you were playing a game.
You got me JTF. I was refering to oil we get shipped to the Gulf and should have been more precise with what I meant by "foreign", because - sure enough - Canada is not America.
Of course, you knew what I meant, but..... To. The. Core.

Canada, The 51st state in Spoofs world...

 

[USAF]

Aww - you are going with Canadian oil is foreign oil.

LOLOLOL.

That's quite possibly the funniest thing ever written on TD.

Good lord.

LOL.

 

[USAF]

Apparently the border wall is one of the things that took a hit...I've heard from several people that for a number of the projects it will cost more to shut them down then it would to just finish the God damn work.

Link?

 

[justthefacts]

If nothing else, this should be a humorous- what 6 to 10 months?

Ah, the always present earpiece theory. Probably got his from Hillary.

Isn't it the Marines' job to salute him first?

 

[justthefacts]

So, dumb question: why do they even want the pipeline on American soil? Is it because Duluth has necessary shipping infrastructure that isn't built in, say, Thunder Bay? And the next closest equivalent port (US or Canadian) would add hundreds of miles to the pipeline?

They want the pipeline to go to Nebraska directly from Alberta, rather than via the current pipeline path to Manitoba then South. The hypotenuse rather than than the two legs.

 

[Spoofin]

A) Yes, clearly it's all my fault that I consider Canadian oil to be foreign oil.

B) The US is a next exporter of oil. We're not dependent on foreign oil.

C) I'm not sure which foreign oil exactly you consider to be the bad stuff, but it may surprise you to know that of the ~230M barrels we do import every month, ~120M barrels are already coming from Canada. In fact, we only get ~20M barrels from OPEC states. https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_impcus_a2_nus_ep00_im0_mbbl_m.htm

D) According to the company that wants to build the pipeline, TC Energy, Keystone would bring in 830k barrels per day. Let's say those barrels' transpo costs are reduced by 1/2, and let's say that 1/2 of oil costs are transpo costs (both of those seem very high.) In that case that means we'll reduce the overall cost of our Canadian oil by 0.5*0.5*(830,000 / (120,000,000 / 30)) = 5%. Not sure that's going to move the needle on foreign energy independence.

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I don't consider any to be "the bad stuff" - I consider it to be more expensive.
Even that stuff coming from Canada is twice as expensive if coming by rail than thru the pipeline.
So is getting 830,000 barrels a day for less money helpful or not?
Why does your equation not account for additional oil we could get from Canada?
You don't care about cheaper oil or US jobs. That is your right.

 

[Spoofin]

Canada, The 51st state in Spoofs world...

I figured most people knew what I meant by "foreign oil" considering the whole coversation was about the Keystone pipeline. If I would have been asked to guess who couldn't have even figured that out - you would have been at the top of my list. JTF knew - he just isn't an honest person.

 

[howeda7]

Canada, The 51st state in Spoofs world...

Deal. Let's install their 2 Senators immediately.

 

[MplsGopher]

They want the pipeline to go to Nebraska directly from Alberta, rather than via the current pipeline path to Manitoba then South. The hypotenuse rather than than the two legs.

Doh. I was thinking of Line 3.

 

[justthefacts]

I don't consider any to be "the bad stuff" - I consider it to be more expensive.
Even that stuff coming from Canada is twice as expensive if coming by rail than thru the pipeline.
So is getting 830,000 barrels a day for less money helpful or not?
Why does your equation not account for additional oil we could get from Canada?
You don't care about cheaper oil or US jobs. That is your right.

A) You said said reduced dependence on foreign oil, and then got mad when I said it's all foreign oil. That implied that somehow it's OK to be dependent on Canada, but not OK to be dependent on someone else's oil.

B) Everything I've seen says that the oil that would go through Keystone is already coming through pipelines, just traveling further. I'd be very interested to see numbers.

C) Sure, it's helpful to the oil companies, but it would not make any difference to our oil independence, which is where you started. We're net exporters of oil.

D) Most analyses say the jobs will be temporary while the pipeline is being built. You're right, I don't get too fired up for 3000 temporary jobs. And again, that has nothing to do with being independent from foreign oil.

My guess is that you didn't realize the oil was coming from Canada, and everything since has been hand-waving.