He clearly doesn´t understand supply-and-demand. The more oil available to the world-market, the cheaper it will be for all consumers. How hard is that?

What a LIAR! It is his nature to lie. See John 8:44.

"Temporary" means years and years in this case. Does this moron think the pipeline would be built overnight? It´s not even shovel ready. Plus, who cares if the oil is exported? Or is he going to just give it away? Exports mean revenue for the U.S. but apparently getting revenue legitimately without raising taxes is anathema to Zero.

You know he is not going to allow this pipeline.

He´s anti science.

But mostly he´s anti American.

The real issue is that the money would be spent in states that the Dhimmocrats don´t control, and can´t win either...

Poop mouth

Evidently, doing damage to our allies trumps revenue!
Kneel down to allalahlalahlah Barry...

This isn´t true, but Obama says FU Canada anyhow.

Bull crap!!!! EVERYBODY would profit from this except his arab Muslims who he is obviously trying to protect!!!!

Art

Liar! Liar! Pants on fire!!!

And his "stimulus" created permanent jobs?
The guy needs to go back to community organizer.

Pretty much it was generally accepted that the United States´ closest allies (at least up until 2009) were the United Kingdom, Canada, Israel, Japan and Australia.

Fast forward to 2013. Is there one of those nations that BHO has not gone out of his way to insult, endanger, or undermine over the past 4+ years?

Meanwhile he licks the boots and bows down to the likes of Chavez in Venezuela, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and every other sworn enemy of the United States.

It´s incredible. No one else sees this?

Fits with his socialist / communist upbringing and mantra - those who have - should not have it in the first place and should not be enriched by what they have. He has exposed himself continually but the blind chose not to see. The man is a master liar.

He continues to lie to himself and to the american people. The man is obviously out of touch with reality and has some sort of messiah delusion.
Lord knows what sort of anti american damage he will do next week in Isreal.
Congress must take action under the 25th ammendment before it is too late.
Even always wrong Biden would be an improvement.

What is he on?

Another shoot-from-the-hip declaration. This week, this is the view that suits him. Next week, if it suits him, he will reverse himself.

So, if Canada has a pie and they offer to share some of the slices with us, Obama says NO PIE for anybody because it´s not his pie.

Agree w/ 8 and #12. Canada is our closest neighbor. If it benefits them, why not help? At least we get the benefit of "temporary" jobs - at a time when we really need it. If the oil gets here and is exported, then there will be permanent jobs for dock workers and others employed at ports. Of course, those workers will be in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi and the Dems are not going to get their kickbacks from those states.

It is his BFF Warren Buffet who will be making millions of dollars, and a large portion of that will end up the DemoRAT´s pockets!

is this his final answer? if so - good. run the line thru BC and sell it to asia...

The Canadians. eh?

Freaking bunch of Molsen-guzzling, plaid-shirted lumberjacks! Another evil group for the lo-fos to hate!

Adding 800,000 bbl per day to the world´s oil supply would result in lower refined oil prices. How does this not benefit America? The answer is that it does benefit America, but the Fascist Obama (like his former Energy Secretary Chu) is committed to $8 per gallon gasoline to help his fascist Green friends like Gore and Immelt.

If I understand correctly the oil in the pipeline is sent to US refineries and then the gasoline will be put on the world market where we get at least fifty percent of our supply. The Arabs sometimes hold back their supply to raise prices, but the Canadian oil will tend to lower prices here. If the prices are lower here it does not bode so well with the environmentalists who blame gasoline engines for global warming. I am old and have read Rachael Carson´s book, Silent Spring, from the 70´s in which the great environmental hype then was the "Coming Ice Age". Is our country a bunch of fools?

I would rather see Canada, our neighbor and friend get fabulously wealthy than send another dollar, as little as it is to the Saudi´s who only pretend to be our friends and who fund the terrorists who wish to hurt this country. Obama sees and knows this but blood is thicker than water and our Marxist, Muslim president wants America downsized...the heck with jobs, he wants more people on the welfare rolls depending on the government handout. Look at the wonderland that Chicago and Detroit are, and they are Democratic utopias...California and New York are working hard to match them.

Hmmm... Only Canada would benefit? OK President Doofus... so you ignore Texas and the benefits our refineries would have with this steady supply of oil. We do not exist in your world. I understand.

To quote our Governor...Adios MF.
We are outahere!
Welcome to the Republic of Texas.

The submessage; Hey you hosers! Where´s MY cut?

Because of the huge supply of the western oil sands and shortage of pipelines the base price of oil in western Canada is depressed vs the rest of north america. Keystone will benefit everybody. The alternate pipeline to the pacific coast in Canada is being planned but not yet in place. There are plans for a rail line with trains to haul the oil to connect with the shipping terminal from the Alaska pipeline. If the US didn´t use or benefit from getting cheaper raw oil supply it could export the oil for more than it paid for it through the gulf coast ports!

Obama has the intellectual depth of a freshman college student, stoned out of his mind.

O´s big buddy ´Warren Buffoon´ has a railroad that he admitted recently is moving 500,000 barrels of oil per day.

Article:

John Hinderaker posted an article at Power Line today entitled,”Blocking the Keystone Pipeline: Who Benefits?”

Mr. Hinderaker points out:

If the Obama administration holds firm on blocking Keystone, the big loser will be TransCanada Corporation. But who will the big winners be? American railroads:

And of them, the biggest winner might just be the Burlington Northern Santa Fe, which is owned by Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate controlled by Obama supporter and Omaha billionaire Warren Buffett.

In December, the CEO of BNSF, Matthew Rose, said that his railroad was shipping about 500,000 barrels of oil per day out of the Bakken Shale in North Dakota and that it was seeking a permit to send “crude by rail to the Pacific Northwest.” He also said the railroad expects to “eventually” be shipping 1 million barrels of oil per day.

-> Isn’t it an incredible coincidence that Warren Buffet, one of President Obama’s biggest supporters, will benefit greatly if the pipeline is stopped. Who will lose? American workers who need jobs.

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Where are the republicans shouting from the rooftops calling out this lie. I think the people should start putting pressure on the repubs to respond to any obama lie quickly and harshly. A lie told often enough and not challenged will be considered truthful by the low info voters

You would think on a national security basis alone we would want this pipeline to our refineries. When the Iranians start lobbing missiles at our tankers on the Strait of Hormuz, we´ll remember this decision

@#1: He understands everything. Personal freedom is his enemy.

"He said there were no permanent jobs."

I see no real reason to doubt the veracity of these reports. It´s as if President Obama doesn´t know that we will ship finished product to countries without refineries. That work has do be done by people. It´s work. For people. In the United States. As long as the oil flows. Which step can he not understand? This is the output of Harvard Law? (I´m prejudiced, only trust lawyers who are secure enough to wear bolos.)

#3 - Significant sections are already under construction. These parts will be underutilized should the XL segments go unbuilt. So it´s beyond shovels. There are backhoes in motion. Wasn´t that a Billy Squier hit?

He never left that vocation, #11.

US refineries were optimized for very heavy oil. They would actually prefer to process a mix of US and Canadian oil and export some of the light sweet TX oil. The oil from tar sands is more expensive to produce so it creates a buffer in case oil prices fall.

My son is a welder who would love to have one of those temporary jobs.

3-4 years is as close to permanent as any welding job ever gets.

Equipment operators, laborers, office staff.....this is the very definition of "Shovel Ready".

I want Barky in an orange jumpsuit, cuffed and manacled doing the half-step shuffle with a few dozen other federal perps into the courthouse. There will be blacks rioting in the streets. But better to fight now than leave the problem for your children.