These folks are so earnest and sincere, it's too bad they aren't better informed.
President Obama isn't in Washington, D.C. right now, and in fact isn't even in the country; he's on a glad-handing and show-the-flag mission to that ancient and wonderful land of Bunga Bunga....er, I mean Burma. Myanmar, to you, me and everybody else now, because they didn't like the old name. Maybe they were ashamed of the past history attached to it. They certainly ought to be, if my reading of Wikipedia is correct.
Here's a link to the above-pictured article in the Toronto Star about the pipeline protesters, who evidently aren't aware that one of America's priorities is to become independent of its reliance on Middle Eastern oil, and if we're going to rely solely on North American supplies, then this pipeline needs to be built. It should also be pointed out that pipelines can move product in both directions if required, or if it is desirable. If there was a pipeline from Alaska's North Slope all the way to the Gulf in Texas for example, we wouldn't be endangering those
thousands of miles of coastline with the possibility of another Exxon Valdez incident.
As for the battle against greenhouse gases and global warming, I've said this before, but I'll repeat it again: one or two nations or even several taking drastic action to reduce pollution isn't going to have any significant effect unless we can get every nation to act together on it. I am thinking specifically here of nations like China and India, presently comprising 36% of the world's population. Do our protesters do any homework or any independent reading? I wonder!
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