Keystone oil pipeline finds champions in Montana Democrats eyeing local benefits

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The fact that Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) has fought so hard for the Keystone XL pipeline underscores the changing politics of oil: A global commodity has become a local issue.

“All I care about is working right now to get the most jobs for Montanans, and Keystone is a part of that solution,” Baucus said in an interview. “To me, it’s a no-brainer. . . . People at home, they want this.”

Baucus has emerged as one of Capitol Hill’s fiercest proponents of the project, largely because the pipeline extension will mean that oil extracted from parts of Montana and North Dakota will have an easier route to Gulf Coast refineries.

He not only has lobbied President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton — whose department is reviewing Trans­Canada’s proposal to construct a 1,700-mile pipeline between Alberta, Canada, and the Gulf Coast of Texas — but also pushed unsuccessfully last month for language in the highway bill that would have greenlighted the project over the administration’s objections.

full: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/keystone-oil-pipeline-finds-champions-in-montana-democrats-eyeing-local-benefits/2012/07/08/gJQABAQnWW_singlePage.html

[msongs]

1. gee Max, concentration camps need workers, want those too? nt

[SoutherDem]

2. If we are going to be spending money, which is a good thing

why not fix bridges, roads, water treatment plants, the power system just to name a few.

Also, am I understanding this pipeline will be to help Canada sell oil to China?

[PearliePoo2]

4. What I have heard is that the oil in this pipeline

is going into international tankers and will be on the world market.
The idea that this pipeline is going to make the gas at your corner station cheaper is pure bullshit.

[russspeakeasy]

3. Max gets bought and sold once a month.

[pansypoo53219]

5. = 30 coins of silver.