WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is already citing the decision not to proceed with the Keystone XL pipeline as one of the key accomplishments of his presidency.
Obama spoke to the group Organization for Action on Monday. He recounted the improving economy and job numbers and the higher number of people with health insurance coverage. Those are staples in his speeches to supporters. But he added to the list of accomplishments the decision to kill a Canadian energy giant’s application to build the pipeline.
He says going ahead with the pipeline would have harmed the United States’ leadership on curbing global warming.
“We’ve got to lead by example, because ultimately, If we’re going to prevent large parts of the Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable, then we’re going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground rather than burn them,” Obama said.
The group Obama is addressing supports the president’s political agenda, including efforts to curb global warming and overhaul the nation’s immigration laws.
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More first-class trolling from the “no fucks left to give” President. God, I love it.
I guess if it helps the activists to feel good about having achieved something, great. But honestly, I’d call it a victory for midwestern refineries serviced by the Enbridge pipeline, and a defeat for the more southerly refineries who wanted a piece of the Canadian tar sands action via Keystone. Hardly the stuff of major Presidential accomplishments.
BREAKING: The butthurt Associated Press once again accuses President Obama of spiking the ball; mangles the name of Organizing for America.
Yes and no: he waited too long, but fine.
I suspect there was a lot more to killing Keystone than we’ll ever know. I wonder if that $1.90 gas we had a few weeks ago was just the market, or did other oil interests consider it a bargain to forgo profits for a few months to make Keystone no longer economically viable?
Obama is going to one day write a riveting memoir.