Opinion

Obama’s Keystone caper

The Issue: President Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL oil pipeline proposal.

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I would like to thank President Obama for killing the Keystone Pipeline (“A Crude Keystone Calculation,” Editorial, Jan. 19).

By doing so, he gave the American public another reason not to re-elect him.

The pipeline would not have cost American taxpayers a dime, while creating 100,000 US jobs.

More importantly, it would have drastically cut the global price of crude oil and, in turn, the cost of most goods and services here.

Matthew Nugent

Staten Island

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Obama wants to cast blame on the Republicans for the delay in the pipeline decision,

Obama is someone who does not embrace the concept “the buck stops here,” as everything that does not go his way is consistently blamed on others.

Brenda Leghorn

West Hartford, Conn.

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Now we know two things Obama can’t do after three years of studying: turn the economy around and make a decision on building the pipeline.

The pipeline would be built and create jobs almost exclusively in states that Obama has little chance of winning in November.

Does anyone wonder if Obama would have denied it if it ran through battleground states?

Never has a president governed so transparently in his own best interests at the expense of the good of his country.

Pete Vetro

Beachwood, NJ

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National and economic security dictate the construction of the Keystone Pipeline — recent back-to-back news has said it all.

Who would we rather pay for our oil, the Saudis or Canadians? And which country is a more secure supplier?

Jack Maggi

Manhattan