Pipeline (Keystone XL) allegations off-track, say Buffett, Holland

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20120202/NEWS01/702029883#pipeline-allegations-off-track-say-buffett-holland

By Paul Hammel

LINCOLN — Warren Buffett owns a railroad, but both he and an old liberal friend, Dick Holland, are rejecting claims that they railroaded the rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline.

Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway owns Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., has been the focus of several recent news reports suggesting that he helped persuade President Barack Obama to turn down the $7 billion, 1,700-mile pipeline because its rejection would shift more oil shipments to the railroad.

Buffett, who has long supported Obama, said he has never talked to the president, any member of his administration or any member of Congress about the pipeline.

"I'm not qualified to have an opinion being neither an engineer, a geologist or having any other skill that would give me special qualifications for making a decision," Buffett said in an email response to questions.

Map of rail lines: http://www.omaha.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=OW&Date=20120202&Category=NEWS01&ArtNo=702029883&Ref=V1&maxw=600&maxh=400

FULL story at link.

[Scuba]

1. "I'm not qualified to have an opinion ..." . I wish more public figures would adopt that position.

[eyewall]

2. Is this a new conspiracy being spread

by the right wing hate radio/FOX propaganda boys?

Sounds like their style.

It's funny how the right bases their entire political reality on worshiping wealth and yet they teach the same hatred among their flock of left leaning billionaires as they do of liberal middle class or bipartisan poor.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Yep

George Soros and Saul Alinsky are involved as well.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. And spread on DU too, worryingly

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002223568

[Jackpine Radical]

6. I guess they couldn't figure out a way to pin it on Soros.

I'm not gonna call 'em [s]Naz[/s] the N-word, but those folks certainly icked up some techniques from the likes of Goebbels.

[Turbineguy]

5. Why Buffett is not a republican:

"I'm not qualified to have an opinion being neither an engineer, a geologist or having any other skill that would give me special qualifications for making a decision,"

Lack of qualifications never bothers republicans.