Hello Keith. Glad to have you back.
Jan W
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From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 1:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Tar Sands Report
Hi Robert
And then there's this...
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8403-keystone-xls-dirty-little-secret
Keystone XL's Dirty Little Secret
Monday, 09 April 2012 09:18
By Jim Hightower, OtherWords | News Analysis
The people and companies pushing the tar-sands pipeline don't want
you to know that most of this oil won't be made into gasoline for our
vehicles.
It's certainly true, declared Energy Secretary Stephen Chu, that
having Canada as a supplier for our oil is much more comforting than
to have other countries supply our oil.
He was referring to the Canadian tar sands oil that TransCanada
Corporation intends to move through the Keystone XL pipeline it wants
to build from Alberta to refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast. He and
lobbyists for the pipeline assert that filling America's gas tanks
with fuel derived from Canadian crude will cut U.S. dependency on the
oil we get from unstable and unfriendly nations.
Good point! If it were true. However, ask yourself this question: why
go to the expense of piping this stuff 2,000 miles through six
states, endangering water supplies and residents with inevitable
toxic spills, when there are oil refineries much closer to Canada in
the Midwest? What's the advantage of sending Canadian crude to
refineries way down in Port Arthur, Texas? Aha - because it's a port!
What the pushers of Keystone want to keep secret from you and me is
that this oil will not be made into gasoline for our vehicles. Most
of it will be refined into diesel and jet fuel and exported to
Europe, China, and Latin America.
The claim that the pipeline will reduce our reliance on OPEC is an
outright lie. Such oil giants as Valero, Motiva, and Total have
already rejiggered their Port Arthur refineries specifically to make
diesel and jet fuel, nearly all of which will then be piped into
tanker ships at the port and sent abroad. In presentations to
investors, Valero openly touts its export strategy, even showing
world maps with convenient arrows pointing from Port Arthur to its
foreign customers.
You'd think our energy secretary would know this dirty little secret
and come clean with the American people.
National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of the
book, Swim Against The Current: Even A Dead Fish Can Go With The
Flow, Jim Hightower has spent three decades battling the Powers That
Be on behalf of the Powers That Ought To Be - consumers, working
families, environmentalists, small businesses, and just-plain-folks.
Interesting reading . . .
http://forestethics.org/downloads/FEA_Tar_Sands_funding_briefing.pdf
Robert Luis Rabello
Adventure for Your Mind
http://www.newadventure.ca
Meet the People video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txsCdh1hZ6c
Crisis video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZedNEXhTn4
The Long Journey video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy4muxaksgk
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