wakeflood
I have nothing to back this thought up but it occurred to me recently that there’s one strategic reason to do KXL and maybe Obama (and others) are enamored with the idea of it.
It’s not energy independence – since most of this oil is promised to China BUT there’s a corollary: That being that after 50yrs. of being held at knife point by energy cartels, KXL represents an opportunity to hold the knife.
The owners of this country I feel, would DEARLY love to have some way to blackmail China should it ever need to – and there’s lots of reasons to think that day could come (cybersecurity, military expansion, owning our debt, etc.). If China pushes too hard, we can shut off the tap.
How many other opportunities would we have to yank their chain? We got nuthin.
Hmmm…