A Keystone Hack






  1. mlhouse:

    But Warren Buffett probably would not own the railway in your hypothetical scenario. So the liberals will block it.

  2. DirtyJobsGuy:

    I think the big picture is the ability to send crude to a range of Midwest and Gulf Coast Refineries via keystone. Cheaper and safer. If you needed to transship to rails you would just send it by rail (higher cost and risk). However, the Canadians could refine in Canada, the ship refined product in existing pipelines. The greens gambit is to hobble the tar sands production.

  3. Craig Loehle:

    How about an oil "lake" right at the border. Pipe up to the lake dumps it in, pipe across the border sucks it up. Of course, cover it.

  4. JLawson:

    Get a geodetic survey team in. Find the precise location of the border.

    Run the pipeline up to the border. Put a tank car STRADDLING the border line.

    On the Canadian side - empty the pipeline into the tank car.

    On the US side, have the tank car serve as a pickup for the receiving pipeline.

    Problem solved - except Buffet's gonna be unhappy.

  5. Craig Loehle:

    A direct analogy is the law preventing the export of oil.
    Imagine if the building of ports was banned because we don't "need" shoes from China....