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Keystone pipeline is running into bad economics of lower crude per barrel. $75 could be a (Original Post) CK_John Nov 2014 OP
The GOP has a death wish on the 99%. Anything that might make the 99% disappear sooner they are FOR! blkmusclmachine Nov 2014 #1
If that is the case then expect that crude will never, ever hit $75 a barrel. dilby Nov 2014 #2
Tar sand is on a bubble bust path. CK_John Nov 2014 #3
A pipeline for hot peanut butter A HERETIC I AM Nov 2014 #4
Keystone is just a Canadian sewer line to dump the sand into the Gulf. You're right, the pipe needs CK_John Nov 2014 #5

dilby

(2,273 posts)
2. If that is the case then expect that crude will never, ever hit $75 a barrel.
Thu Nov 6, 2014, 06:35 PM
Nov 2014

If prices drop we will just create a fake war in the Middle East to drive those prices right back up, there is a lot of money to be made on that pipeline and you and I are not the ones who will be making a single red cent of it.

A HERETIC I AM

(24,370 posts)
4. A pipeline for hot peanut butter
Thu Nov 6, 2014, 06:39 PM
Nov 2014

That's pretty much what they'll be running through it - material with the consistency of hot peanut butter that is as abrasive as hell to the inside of the pipe.

HEY CANADA! Why don't you just build the refinery needed to make usable fuel out of that crap UP THERE IN ALBERTA?


I know the answer. Because a pipeline is a shitload cheaper and there are a bunch of refineries in the US that can do the job, our lakes and streams be damned

CK_John

(10,005 posts)
5. Keystone is just a Canadian sewer line to dump the sand into the Gulf. You're right, the pipe needs
Thu Nov 6, 2014, 06:49 PM
Nov 2014

to be Teflon and double walled.

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