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ProfessionalLeftist

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5. I wouldn't call it a "conspiracy" anyway

Reply to Sen. Walter Sobchak (Reply #4)

Sun Feb 17, 2013, 06:47 PM

Feb 2013

I DO call it a very very bad idea which only benefits TransCanada and the damn Koch Brothers at the expense of the rest of us and the natural environment. Kochs, as I understand it, are very heavily invested in Canadian Tar Sands and also own some or all of those TX refineries...

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Why the Keystone pipeline would boost pump prices [View all] ProfessionalLeftist Feb 2013 OP

Wasn't it a RW publication which had to admit this two years ago??? zbdent Feb 2013 #1

Ohhhh? I'd like to know which one. ProfessionalLeftist Feb 2013 #2

Can't recall, but it was something like a Bloomberg or zbdent Feb 2013 #3

Keystone XL is the SECOND of two pipelines, Sen. Walter Sobchak Feb 2013 #4

I wouldn't call it a "conspiracy" anyway ProfessionalLeftist Feb 2013 #5

I am not aware of Koch family being involved with TCPL, Sen. Walter Sobchak Feb 2013 #7

Well they are involved. One of the big Koch Industries products ProfessionalLeftist Feb 2013 #8

Being involved in the tar sands doesn't mean being inolved with Keystone XL Sen. Walter Sobchak Feb 2013 #9

At a minimum, it will not decrease prices Mason Kennedy Feb 2013 #6

The southern section of the Keystone has already been approved and is being built FarCenter Feb 2013 #10

Part Two of that Article (Feb 15 2013) theKed Feb 2013 #11