Tornado Alley (PROG)

[SilverSurfer]

“ America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. ”

- Harry S. Truman

President Obama is no more responsible for high oil and gas prices than Bush was

That's true so it just shows how uninformed the American public is on this subject. Sad isn't it?

Yes

Saying no to Keystone makes it look bad for him

Only to people who don't care about the environment. It never fails to amaze me how the repubs have convinced their 'base' how caring about safe air, water and food is a liberal plot to destroy the country. And regulations that would ensure the safety of the people is somehow against 'the free market'.

So how would you feel if you found out that some big corporation was dumping toxic chemicals and pollutants two miles from your house because the regulations for preventing them from doing that were rolled back?

Red Herring

Would his base abandon him if he agrees to a conventional fuel project?

It depends on what that project was. Why you guys are so hot for this pipeline that would do nothing to lower our gas prices and has the potential for destroying our water system if something went wrong, is mind boggling to me. You DO realize that gas prices won't go down one penny with the pipeline, don't you?

Prices fluctuate but will go up on dollar weakness/dilution either way. We need all feasable energy sources built up to become more energy independent.