Monday, March 11, 2013

NYT editors to Obama: kill Keystone XL

Editorial from today's New York Times:
The State Department’s latest environmental assessment of the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline makes no recommendation about whether President Obama should approve it. Here is ours. He should say no, and for one overriding reason: A president who has repeatedly identified climate change as one of humanity’s most pressing dangers cannot in good conscience approve a project that — even by the State Department’s most cautious calculations — can only add to the problem. ...
That's followed by several paragraphs of mostly bogus drivel straight out of the eco-loon propaganda manual.

Update:  Terence Corcoran weighs in: The New York Times calls for war on Canadian oil
... Following the Times’ advice, here’s a possible Keystone speech for Mr. Obama: “... I believe that climate change is one of humanity’s most pressing dangers. We need to decarbonize the world economy, and I think Canada is a good place to start ...."

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

When you are a wealthy editor of a major newspaper it's easy to advocate government actions that will hurt and hinder others because you can afford to play at being an ivory tower nobleman.

Anonymous said...


There are a lot of interests in the U.S. who are making a great deal of money because Canada is forced to sell its oil cheaply to the U.S.

Anonymous said...

i guess those nit wits at the times think they will distribute their socialist rag by horse and buggy.

JR said...

I see Terence Corcoran has weighed in on this in today's NatPo(linked in Update.)