Gassed?

Obama environmentalists have managed to halt new pipeline construction all over North America.  Unfortunately they forgot to snuff out rapidly expanding U.S. shale oil development and shale oil comes with oodles of natural gas that has nowhere to go without pipelines.

So shale oil from North Dakota is rail shipped right through major city centers (that is dangerous and stupid) and a massive volume of natural gas is simply flared off on site in the Dakotas every day of every year.  How much natural gas is making smoke to satisfy the environmental guys?  There is so much gas burning off at shale oil sites that the flares can be seen from space.

Energy wasted.  Shale gas smoke wafting along the jet stream from the Prairies to Chicago.  Jobs lost.  Citizens freezing in the dark.  Rampant pollution.  Economic benefit squandered.  All of this to win the argument against pipelines that have been arteries of prosperity for decades in North America.

Pipelines reduce pollution and environmental damage.  Pipelines raise the standard of living for working stiffs.  Oil shipped by rail costs a lot more, but it also makes fortunes for the Democrats in charge on Wall Street.  They own the railways.