Yet another indication Joe is clueless.. I dont care so much about the pipeline workers, but I do care about the environment. Blocking pipelines means more pollution, and a hell of a lot of it. But Joe is either not smart enough to understand that or cares more about his image than doing good. No surprise.

@freemo Yet another point: Oil is getting stockpilled in big deposits in Cushing and Texas, they plan to sell it and burn it eventually.

@ArturoGoosnargh I doubt anyone would just burn off oil, they will just find ways to transport it by buying trucks (which is what the data shows they do).. if they truely were ever forced to just burn oil why dont they just stop pumping it instead?

@freemo Yeah, I'm for MOAR pipelines.

It was a pointmade for the pipeline. Removing the pipeline doesn't inhibit the production of oil that much, instead they just stockpile it for years. Eventually the CO2 impact will be the same.

@ArturoGoosnargh Yea I get that, the point I am disagreeing with is that they will burn it, they wont.

What happens is they just stockpile it as they invest in trucks to haul it. Generally they quickly have more than enough trucks to be able to haul it away at a greater rate than it is produced. It almost never gets to the point where it sits around for very long.

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@ArturoGoosnargh They are, but less so than other sources. The number of trucks on the road hauling crude oil is enough to produce 10 million tons of CO2 a year in the USA alone. So clearly it is economical enough.

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