Attn, Obama: Three Reasons to Build Keystone XL Pipeline

So a bill to push the Keystone XL Pipeline failed to get enough
support in
the Senate yesterday. It’s likely that when the new,
GOP-controlled Congress takes over in 2015, something similar will
sail through and President Barack Obama will veto or otherwise
quash plans to build the thing.

A year and change ago, Reason TV released “3 Reasons to Build
the Keystone XL Pipeline.” Take a look above and go here for

a full writeup.

Vote or no vote, veto or no veto, this much is pretty clear:
There’s something seriously wrong when the government is able to
stymie the building of a private project. Yes, there are
eminent-domain abuse issues surrounding some aspects of the
pipeline and those should be dealt with. But there’s simply no good
argument for the government holding up things. This isn’t about
jobs (the numbers, real and imagined, in those sorts of scenarios
are always guess work and it’s not the government’s job to create
jobs anyway) and it’s not about the environment (the Canadian
petroleum products are going somewhere, so the idea that this will
to global warming or whatever is simply cant). But given their
willingness to support any sort of taxpayer-funded boondoggle (and
the temp jobs those useless projects generate), the liberal
Democratic opposition to building the pipeline is really
just bald hypocrisy.