This morning I saw a story over at American Thinker about the Keystone Pipeline. It talks about rail tankers fitted with heater coils so that raw bitumen extracted from Canadian field may be transported to refineries without dilutents that make the refining process more difficult. In a rail car accident that splits open the heated car, you would get a bunch of nonflammable congealed black gunk to clean up. I think we are beginning to see the shape of the new federal regulations.
The environmentalists seem quite conversant with this technology, I gather from reading that Anthony Swift, an attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, describes oil-sands bitumen transport in heated rail cars as a "niche market.”
I Couple this with billionaire and Obama fund raiser Tom Steyer coming out publicly with a pledge to spend millions to back anti-Keystone candidates in the November Congressional elections to illustrate the pattern.
I now ask you, is Mr. Steyer, or for that matter anybody who will anonymously contribute to the anti-Keystone candidates, truly interested in saving the planet, or are they talking their book?
I now ask you, is Mr. Steyer, or for that matter anybody who will anonymously contribute to the anti-Keystone candidates, truly interested in saving the planet, or are they talking their book?