We need the Keystone pipeline

[cthulu2016]

Only by pumping oil into Texas from Canada can we reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

[The Wielding Truth]

1. You are kidding. You must be.

[PDittie]

28. That's exactly what

Rick Perry said.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/12/28/rick-perry-thinks-canada-is-not-a-foreign-country/

[tawadi]

2. Did you forget this?

[NeoGreen]

3. Ok, I have to ask...

... how is Canadian Oil not Foreign Oil?

[Son of Gob]

7. That's the joke.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. I'm deprived of DU all day and as soon as I get back in you make my head hurt!

Good one.

[Son of Gob]

5. I get it.

[bigwillq]

6. Unrec (nt)

[The Straight Story]

8. You can't unrec things :)

[bigwillq]

9. I guess my joke wasn't as funny.

[Zorra]

14. Yeah it was. nt

[bigwillq]

17. Oh, ok, good!

[krawhitham]

18. Which is why DU2 was better

[The Straight Story]

19. I would rather we could vote up/down on replies

Would be interesting....

[Spazito]

10. LOL!

Crap, when did Canada become the 51st State?!!??

Damn that "Harper Government"!



It took me a sec to get it, lol.

[cthulu2016]

23. Thanks. I had to twist the sentence up to bury it

I couldn't say "Canadian oil" or "pumping oil from Canada to Texas"... would give away the punchline.

[liberal N proud]

11. Meanwhile all the oil recovered from fracking will go overseas.

I can't find the link tonight, but last week there were numerous articles about foreign companies buying the oil in Easter Ohio and other locations currently tracking.

[cthulu2016]

15. Yes, I think it was natural gas exports

If all US produced natural gas was sold in the US the domestic price of natural gas would go way down.

And since we have not nationalized energy that makes perfect sense.

Speaking for myself, I would nationalize energy.

[neverforget]

12. I see what you did here. Well done!

[one_voice]

13. Word!...

Oh wait...what?

Good one!

[wiggs]

16. GOP is out in force talking about how many jobs were

flushed down the drain. I'd like to see dem leaders, maybe even Obama, get up there and talk about three things: 1) the economic, social, and environmental downsides to the project 2) the gop trigger that established the requirement to make a decision on the project before all the legwork could be done, and 3) the fact that this oil would not reduce dependence on foreign oil and would be sold on the world market.

Why can't the messaging on this, like nearly every other issue, be better?

[Atticus]

20. Can we pay for it with Hawaiian money? NT

[yardwork]

21. Funny!

[JCMach1]

22. I am for it if we go ahead and nationalize the oil industry....!

[BeHereNow]

25. Dream on my friend...

Never gonna happen here.
BHN

[JCMach1]

26. a boy can dream

[Major Hogwash]

24. Yee-haaa!!!

There is no greater truth than that, right thar!!

Get r' done!!!

[KeepItReal]

27. And we strengthen AMERICA'S energy security

...by shipping the Texas-refined oil products overseas.

[cthulu2016]

29. Now you've got it!

[The Wielding Truth]

30. I would have appreciated a sacasim icon. If freepers are lurking they would read it as writen.

[cthulu2016]

34. I do not care for the sarcasm icon

There is a difference between sarcasm and satire.

The OP is not sarcastic. It is a parody of RW talking points. And saying "this is satire" undoes the power of satire, which involves tension when it is most effective.

IMO.

[The Wielding Truth]

35. So, I will have to know that when "You" post from now on and it's odd, it is satire.

But, when ctlulu2011 posts they might mean their odd comment to be true.
No problem.
I'll let you guess what I mean by that.

[Initech]

31. Doing so will create 5,000 jobs!

It wil create 1,000,000 jobs.

It create 10,000,000 jobs.

Oh wait nevermind.

[joeybee12]

32. I think you meant that Canada is not the 51st state...

Therefore OP is good.

Pipeline, bad.

[GoneOffShore]

33. Took me a minute.