Warren Buffett backs Keystone pipeline

captain morgan

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I, like Buffet, have no problem with a pipeline that won't risk contaminating drinking water.


There is a risk to everything MF, whether that's crossing the street, massive contamination potential from nuclear facilities or the wind turbines killing thousands of birds annually.

You are highly selective in your abject rejection in all things oil, but fail to recognize any risk posed by other forms of energy generation.
 

petros

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There is a risk to everything MF, whether that's crossing the street, massive contamination potential from nuclear facilities or the wind turbines killing thousands of birds annually.

You are highly selective in your abject rejection in all things oil, but fail to recognize any risk posed by other forms of energy generation.
ON and it's nuke plants consume and discharge vast amounts of CFCs but is he complaining?
 

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There is a risk to everything MF, whether that's crossing the street, massive contamination potential from nuclear facilities or the wind turbines killing thousands of birds annually.

You are highly selective in your abject rejection in all things oil, but fail to recognize any risk posed by other forms of energy generation.

ON and it's nuke plants consume and discharge vast amounts of CFCs but is he complaining?


 

mentalfloss

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Guys, it's okay to admit you're wrong instead of desperately trying to change the subject.

I won't belittle you - too much - about it. :lol:
 

petros

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The subject is environment. Stay the **** out of my backyard until you clean your far far dirtier backyard up....oh wait, I forgot, cleaning up your backyard is costing manufacturing jobs and you want to deflect real damage in ON to the hypothetical in the west. Good luck with that.

On that note, I'm going fishing on lake Diefenbaker before one of the dozens of pipelines that cross it's supply river burst.
 

mentalfloss

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So, because I comment on the subject of this thread, you automatically assume I have no opinion on other matters?

 
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There is a risk to everything MF, whether that's crossing the street,

Indeed, and that's why we don't cross freeways on foot, and we have crosswalks and lights at intersections, to manage and reduce risk. Which is why the pipeline is to be routed around a sensitive area.

But let's not get in the way of Petros trying to understand how to pump refined products through pipelines, while he holds himself out as a pipeline expert.
 

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Indeed, and that's why we don't cross freeways on foot, and we have crosswalks and lights at intersections, to manage and reduce risk. Which is why the pipeline is to be routed around a sensitive area.

But let's not get in the way of Petros trying to understand how to pump refined products through pipelines, while he holds himself out as a pipeline expert.


Look into the capacity to pump refined products like gasoline over very long distances and see what the results are... If you're going to refine crude, you go all the way - it does not make economic sense to partially refine the crude just to p/l it to another refinery (close to the market where it is consumed) simply to finish the refining job.