[TheRealThing]

Marcellus, Utica, and Devonian shales are where the Appalachian energy money is located. Keystone is very small marbles, compared to these sites. Not to mention all the other shales across the US. FTR, we not only get gas from these shales, we get huge oil reserves. Keystone, with it's small return, is only a political tool, to sway uninformed voters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shale_gas_i...ted_States

Wrong, the US uses around 19 million barrels of crude daily. The Keystone XL Pipeline would bring in 700 thousand barrels daily. That's not small potatoes it's liberal spin. Spin BTW, designed to divert attention away from the real issue. That being this administration's bent to reduce the United State's so-called carbon footprint. In other words, in the opinion of this administration, gasoline "needs" to get up to around 5 dollars a gallon so that many folks will not be able to afford to buy it. You don't sneeze at viable sources of energy, especially those literally laid in your lap, considering the volatility of the Middle East. They will never willingly allow the Keystone Pipeline to go forward. Neither would they ever allow industry to produce oil from any of the sites you have mentioned. It would be against the dictates of their green earth goddess.

It's just another example of the absurd musings of the left. And another way they are trying to manipulate society in an effort to remake the world in the image of their pot influenced master of self delusion, John Lennon.

Were it to be the unfortunate case that liberals stay in power, they will keep their boot on the neck of industry or die trying. Therefore the anti-fracking crowd that puts out all the malarkey of the sort you have put forth, would through legislation and regulation, eventually shut down any hope of getting fossil fuels from any source, much less the sites you mention.