State Department made the right move

Now liberals, don't take aim at me, but in my mind, the State Department made the right decision when it came to the Keystone Pipeline. Do I think the shale oil fields in Canada be drilled? No, I really don't. I understand the magnitude of the environmental problems that the drilling could cause. But that wasn't the question that the State Department was asked to look at, was it? Their job was to access the possible problems with the pipeline, at least as far as I know. And after all the governors approved the pipeline going through their states, was it fair for the State Department to say, NO? I don't think so. But if any of you have different information, and I am wrong in my belief of what the State Department was looking at, please let me know.

Now, I hope that the Canadian government decides that the fields shouldn't be drilled. But one way or another, once they said yes, oil companies were going to figure out a way to get the oil to a port. Refineries are already in New Orleans, and with the problems with deep water drilling that companies have been having, those refineries are not running at maximum capacity. So it makes the most sense to build a pipeline there. In the end, that's what the State Department decided, and that's why the State Department made the right move.