Congress turns up pressure on Keystone Pipeline

[sweetwater5s9]

 
A train hold a lot of oil as well.   Most pipelines around the globe have been successful.   Look at our own Alaskan pipeline over miles of difficult terrain.   Has anyone really found serious problems with the XL pipeline proposal aside from political?

[ttopcat]

The Sierra Club will target it every step of the way to the Gulf.

[sweetwater5s9]

Sure they will but do they run our nation?

[ttopcat]

No,money runs the nation, somebody don't know who' palm's to grease.

[sweetwater5s9]

I'd rather get more oil from Canada than the Middle East.   Too many problems over there...

[ttopcat]

The middle east is no friend of ours, so on that point along build the pipeline if the oil is going to benefit us to rid of us of oil dependence on ME oil.

[hoosier_daddy]

they have ports in canada, stupid fuck.  they are more modern than we are, in many ways, you fucking idiot.  this oil is not for us specifically.  dumbass.  it will be sold on the open market like all canadian oil and mexican oil is.  and we get very little of our oil from saudi arabia as it is.  why do not know anything jerkwater?  too busy running your mouth to ever read anything?

[ttopcat]

We refine oil, and sell the gas ,and diesel to Europe, and many other countries. We like the light sweet crude oil that is easy to refine from the Middle East.

[hoosier_daddy]

and it goes good on hotcakes...

[sweetwater5s9]

Except Iran which does not have sweet crude and has to import gasoline, etc...


Sweet Crude Oil is formally defined as petroleum that has low amounts of hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide mixed in.

The most widely known type of Light Sweet Crude Oil is West Texas Intermediate (WTI). WTI has an API gravity of 39.6, and a sulfur content of only 0.24 percent. WTI is considered the benchmark crude oil in the U.S. and is the type whose price is typically quoted in the media.

New York Mercantile Exchange designates petroleum with less than 0.42% sulfur as "sweet".   Petroleum containing higher levels of sulfur is called sour crude oil.

High-quality, low-sulfur crude oil is commonly used for processing into gasoline and is in high demand, particularly in the industrialized nations. "Light sweet crude oil" is the most sought-after version of crude oil as it contains a disproportionately large fraction that is directly processed (fractionation) into gasoline (naphtha), kerosene, and high-quality diesel (gas oil). The term "sweet" originates from the fact that a low level of sulfur provides the oil with a mildly sweet taste and pleasant smell. Nineteenth century prospectors would taste and smell small quantities of oil to determine its quality.