Building the Pipeline

AMONG THE BIG DECISIONS with which President Obama is faced is that concerning whether to construct a pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Of Mexico for moving crude oil to refineries. Canadian oil, moving across the fruited plain, into American production. Sounds strangely like economic super power imperialism. But let us consider that aspect antoher time. The reason the project hasn't been undertaken yet is that President Obama, citing environmental concerns, hasn't approved it. But now there is a wrinkle in his environmentalist agenda. Namely, thorough studies indicate, rather persuasively, that the pipeline, which would be underground, would have no adverse impact on nature. Either the President will anger the environmental crowd, or the profit seeking crowd. Take your pick, Mr. President. If it isn't perfectly obvious by now, it should be. The human race is going to suck every drop of oil from the ground, and use it. One way, or another. There is no force, save global autocracy, which can prevent it. Such is the power of the corporations in our corporate global civilization. The only remaining question concerns the degree of cleanliness with which we do so. So let's build the damned thing and get it over with. We'll all be happier at the gas pump, the money changers might be sufficiently appeased to cease their inanane free enterprise rhetoric long enough to stop the ringing in our ears, and who knows? Within a few decades, when the growing season begins in January and ends in December, and the average daily temperature at the North Pole is room temperature, the money grubbers might just begin to consider the possibility that something isn't quite right. But don't count on it.