Beetle could delay Keystone pipeline one year: Is government regulation hurting the economy?

I hope that beetle stays right where it is. It was there first. But when has that ever stopped us?

Beetles and minnows are more important than people? Not.

A beetle is holding up the pipeline and you actually have to ask?!?
Don't get me wrong, some regulation is good, but, much of it is just plain ludicrous.

How coincidental, oh my, shocking! This admin will do anything to kill our country. Note the irony.

Yes, it does - but please be gentle to the beetle. Is easier to destroy than to restore.

No question about it. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.

Not in this case, the oil company has already said that the oil is for export, and will raise prices of gasoline in the midwest. The pipeline is just a favor to Canada and the oil companies.

It's protecting the environment so you'll have something to exploit in the future. This is the flipside of eminant domain. Who wants to move out of their home so the government can tear it all to hell?

is the Pope Catholic? Do cops like donuts? does a duck like water? Can a fish swim?...etc.etc.

See above. The oil companies have already said the oil is for export, and will raise gasoline prices in the midwest. Might as well save the beetle for all the good it will do the US.

Destroying it.

See above.

You liberals/progressives are always screaming about the need for regulations, put one in that says it has to be used in America or it gets taxed 50% or more. That is a regulation all Americans (Democrats and Republicans) could live with.

"Keystone Pipeline"? Where have you been the Chinese and the Canadians are not interested in NO stinking Beetle!

While the US was providing security advice training and equipment to Kenya to keep the Genocide by Arab Muslims on Black Muslims & Christians the British have discovered OIL there! The Brits, Chinese and Italians all have signed deals with the Kenya Government to explore and develop the resource! Not US we have a Beetle stuck UP our ASS!!!

Good. Maybe the pipeline won't be built, because it won't do the US any good at all. The oil companies have already said the oil is for export, and will raise gasoline prices in the midwest.

Huh? Lol...what is wrong for the Nation in Cutting the Trade Deficit and empoying people in doing so?

Man you folks are weird!

What happened to energy independence? Wasn't that the supposed reason to build the pipeline? And there will only be about 3500 temp jobs. And how will it cut OUR trade deficit? Its Canada's oil.

Ah OUR Oil Companies buy it from Canada and sell it for a profit. Very simple math!

Don't know? Why has not Golden Boy made that happen? So far he has loaned $950 Million of Tax Payers Money that are now Bankrupt! Solyndra & Abound Solar.

Why has he not ensure more kids are admitted to Med School with 30+ Million more being in the system by 2014?

3500 Jobs are more than Solyndra and Abound Solar are providing as it was ummm temporary! Also there will be permanent jobs added to maintain the pipling and the refine the oil. Pumps will have to be built and heavy equipment used. So in reality it's even more than 3500 temporary jobs.

Here's what is needed

The beetle may be more valuable, because the oil companies have already said the oil is for export, and will raise gasoline prices in the midwest.

And we have a Trade Deficit!

But its Canada's oil. How will that help OUR trade deficit?

Huh? We BUY it from them and sell it at a profit! You don't get what buying something and selling it for a P-r-o-f-i-t means?

Exporting more than what you import leads to wealth! Look at Japan and Germany. Japan currently is running a deficit but understandable as they recover for the Tsunami.

We know Obama wants to keep us dependent on foreign Oil! How come if he wants something done he'd go against those rules!

What crap. Why have the oil companies already said the oil through the pipeline is for export, and will raise gasoline prices in the midwest?

Because the oil is for export, and will raise gasoline prices in the midwest. It is a favor to the oil companies and Canada, and no more. It won't do America any good at all.

Why spam with you nonsense?

Because its true, and there are a large number of people who don't know the facts. On the other hand, this is ithe same sort of studied ignorance repugs and teabuggers love to practice. They don't want to know the truth.

Who's "ignorant'? Lol...you're under some delusion we are going to build a pipeline for the Canadians and then let them ship it all for FREE to the Gulf.

That's very far from the "Truth"!

Ridiculous the number of things that have to be regulated in order to do something in this country to ensure that we don't kill a beetle, can't we save a few of these things and move along with the pipeline.

For what? As a favor to Canada and the oil companies? The oil is for export. That's why its going to New Orleans. Might as well save a beetle instead for all the good it will do the US.

On purpose.

without a doubt....requesting permission from the Feds is not the recipe for completing a supposedly private enterprise project...the govt. finds it easier to diaprove than approve anything...

The project won't do the US any good at all. The oil is for export, and will raise gasoline prices in the midwest. The oil companies have already said that. Might as well save a beetle instead for all the good it will do.

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going a little too far

Absolutely

At least not for the Keystone pipeline. It won't help the US one bit. The oil companies have already said that the oil carried from Canada is to be exported, and it will raise gasoline prices in the midwest. The pipeline is a favor to the oil companies and Canada, and no more. Also, the jobs it would create are temporary, mediocre jobs.

I don't understand why all you conservatives are in such a hurry to build this pipeline. It is going to create some temporary construction jobs to build a pipeline to the coast of Texas. And why do they want to go there? Because from those refineries, they can load the refined gasoline onto tankers and then it is off to China or India or Mexico. That fuel is not staying in the US. In fact, the only thing staying in the US will be the toxic sludge flowing through the pipeline over some of the most important aquifers in the mid west and of course all the pollution caused by the refineries that are causing cancer all over the coast of Texas. I sure wouldn't want to take Canada's problem and make it ours. Canada doesn't want to refine it in Canada because they figure they don't need the pollution or cancer there. The Keystone pipeline is a bad and dangerous deal for the US.