Over on treehugger.com is news that the oil industry is threatening President Obama with "huge political consequences" if he fails to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, which he is now required to decide on in the next 48 days. I knew President Obama was backing himself into a corner by signing a bill that required him to make a decision much sooner than he originally wanted to. However, no matter how I feel about President Obama and his tepid record on the environment and tackling global warming, I despise the oil companies even more.
We cannot let them win. We cannot let them dictate decisions to the President. It is one thing to lobby for support. It is quite another to make billions of dollars in profits, get government subsidies and tax breaks, control at least one political party, and demand that all politicians approve your every request. We must send a message to President Obama that he must not submit to Big Oil demands, and we must show him that we will stand behind him if he stands up to them. The oil companies are unconscionable, looking only to make billions more. They lack respect for the political process, for the environment, and the global human interest. Let Big Oil hear the news: they do not control us, we control them.
We cannot let them win. We cannot let them dictate decisions to the President. It is one thing to lobby for support. It is quite another to make billions of dollars in profits, get government subsidies and tax breaks, control at least one political party, and demand that all politicians approve your every request. We must send a message to President Obama that he must not submit to Big Oil demands, and we must show him that we will stand behind him if he stands up to them. The oil companies are unconscionable, looking only to make billions more. They lack respect for the political process, for the environment, and the global human interest. Let Big Oil hear the news: they do not control us, we control them.
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