WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING PIPELINE!

WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING PIPELINE! (Frazer Chronicle)

Another complicated topic, right.....well actually no, the plain simple truth of the matter, with regards to the Keystone pipeline and the questions the project raises are rather easy to understand, as quickly as a guy cuts through all the bull----.

The question is, "what would happen if the pipe sprung a leak," the rest doesn't matter. Jobs will be created, people, common everyday workers, people with no extraordinary education, experience or qualification will reap the benefits of some of these jobs.

Business will flourish, no business will be created and money will flow like wine, makes me wanna be 40 again, the prospect would excite me. No matter the number of jobs, it's enough just to know that decent paying jobs would be created, and people of the area would have a chance at a piece of the pie.

Taxes would rise, health clinics would be built, schools updated, fire and police departments would get needed funds to operate at a better level, and I'm thinking that cats and dogs might even live together.

4,000 or 20,000 jobs created, this number doesn't matter, the fact of the matter is that "some" locals would get these jobs. The dreams would start up again.....those middle class dreams of moving up in the living standards, maybe all the way to the upper middle class.

Dreams are important to people, all peoples, in all social classes, without dreams we tend to wither on the vine. Projects like the Keystone tend to rekindle people's dream processes.....and God knows we need the hope that dreams brings to our lives.

Still there is that one question.....as there always seems to be, whenever the possibility of a new dream might lift people up. That question, that big, bad question really, really makes the thinking process fundamentally easy to deal with. It doesn't have lots of answers, or raise questions, it's a simple straight foreword question with an equally straight foreword answer.....yes, or no.

Congress laid out a 60 day period for President Obama to give either his approval or denial on the Keystone, clearly not enough time for lawmakers, lawmakers mostly with absolutely no expertise on pipeline transportation, let alone a pipeline that would transport mud more than 2000 miles from Canada, across middle America to Houston and Port Arthur, Texas and the gulf, to make an educated guess of an opinion on the XL.

Environmentalists piss and moan every day about all kinds of projects that go on all around the nation, and that's a good thing, these people are the "grass roots" of America, the retired, or sexually frustrated with time on their hands to study issues, and protest. They make people think, talk and form a more educated opinion.

All of this doesn't matter, the big gig all boils down to whether a 3' round pipe would burst at a point, and point, spewing out a thick tar like crap over an area of land, any area of land, that could spell a problem for the United States.

Without doubt, over the 40 or 50 year history of the Keystone, it would "spring leaks," there is not a doubt in my uneducated mind with regards to that question. So maintenance, a checking system and probably a whole bunch of luck would be necessary to safeguard the land and people around the pipe.

To me, the biggest hurdle crossed was when TransCanada, builder of the pipeline agreed to re-route the line away from the sand hills of Nebraska and a huge aquifer, the Ogallala, one of the largest fresh water supplies in the world. Problem solved right.....will not quite.

Now the project, which Obama rejected, is in the stage of in-fighting, the squabble over who makes the most money, and who will benefit most. It's almost where the big boys will "get out of the sandbox and take their toys home."

Come on boys, hike up your shorts, get back in the "box" put your toys in the sand, and get this stupid thing done. When leaks happen, fix them as quickly as possible, pay whatever you have to, and get back to fueling the world. Cause right now it looks like the world has spoken and we want to continue to rely on using petroleum products and if that's the case, let’s get it as close to home as possible.

It turns out that we "do need a stinking pipeline."