The Keystone Pipeline Doesn't Matter, One Way Or Another

PRESIDENT OBAMA RECENTLY vetoed the Keystone pipeline project - again - That much overly argued over pipe would bring oil from Canada to gulf Coast refineries, employ about four thousand builders, and about fifty full time workers to maintain it. Also, it would merely duplicate what we already have, which is many other pipelines, and would just be more of the same. In other words, its no big deal. Let's face it; we are going to dig up and use up every last ounce of fossil fuel on this planet, and, eventually we are going to run out, get smart, and save the planet just in the nick of time. So, were I Obama, I would agree to sign the Keystone bill, since it really, in the greater scheme of things, doesn't matter one way or another, but I would agree to sign it only on the condition that every republican congressperson sign a document acknowledgin human-made global warming/climate change, and pledging to be onboard when we finally decide to do something about it. Tit for tat, eh? Why not take the opportunity, if you are President Obama, to show a spirit of compromise, to make yourself appear to be open minded and conciliatory, play a little old fashioned wheeling dealing hard ball politics, and get something in return, such as, a reasonable point of view from conservatives, just this once?