Some more fun facts that can show up with just a smidgen of real DD
The Keystone XL pipeline was not getting oil from the US, it would just be transporting(not "generating") it by Canada's TC Energy (then TransCanada) in Canada down to refineries in Texas (where a lot of the padding of politicians pockets took place and a few others along the way).
Then most of it is exported with all the risks of destroying our minimum water supply that is in the worst drought in 1200 yrs and getting worse (one of the big ass "bubbles" of expense coming our way). We're going to be paying more for water than any black, white, or yellow gold.
All the while, bypassing what economic support we're getting by transporting (importing) the oil from Canada the way they are doing now (the oil is still be transported/imported without the pipeline), just more profit for them and why they could pay millions$ to the politicians to yell out the lies they spew about it. And why the politicians pay out a cut to certain misinformation sources to keep ones attention to and fight about. Then it goes down the food chain on it's merry way.
Now with the thousands and thousands of new oil drilling permits/leases that would be coming online down the road, we already have at last count in 2020, 936,934 producing oil wells down from over a million in 2014 due to lower oil prices with less rig activity right here in the US. Maybe the numbers are off a few and they don't all produce equally, but still equates to a crap load of oil and oil product produced in the US.
This amount of oil and oil products from in the US today is being EXPORTED out of the country more than we import by the tune of about 120,000 barrels a day over what we import. We also export more refined product than crude.
That's right, we sell out, again padding the pockets of politicians and oil barons, MORE than we import. At least the US
did in the first half of 21.
Well we have a little disturbance in the big oil club, and things have to change around a bit and they need to make their cut back somehow, and we need to keep more of our own oil, stop exporting it so much (along with importing from other places to keep the status quo). So guess what -- increase costs at the supply. Got to supply that ATM to the politicians who then get paid to scream and holler (lie and obfuscate), the traitors and power mongers that they are. Just desecrating and abusing our first amendment rights, raking in millions/billions from the people with all their shenanigans.
Convincing as many as they can by going through this process what saviors they are, flag wrapping their ass and putting on a bible hat to replace the emperor's clothes. Maybe I just don't like liars, thieves, and crooks but they're worse than traitors as far as I'm concerned being in the positions they are in.
Kleptocrats: a ruler who uses political power to steal his or her country's resources.
Kleptocracy: government by those who seek chiefly status and personal gain at the expense of the governed.
