Another Juan Williams ?

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We have discussed on here before how unbelievable it was that Hillary would turn out to be the least offensive  of this Administration,  

Rastus, I would like your input here on the impact this will have on the local economies.



WASHINGTON – Senators from both parties criticized Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday for signaling likely U.S. support for a $7 billion pipeline to carry Canadian oil to refineries along the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Sens. Mike Johanns and Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Jeff Merkley of Oregon called Clinton's comments premature and damaging to the integrity of the federal review process. The lawmakers cautioned Clinton to consider all sides before deciding whether to grant a permit allowing TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline to cross the U.S-Canadian border.

Clinton stirred up controversy on both sides of the border last week after saying she was "inclined" to back the project, which would carry crude oil nearly 2,000 miles from tar sands in Alberta, Canada, to Port Arthur, Texas, via Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma.

"We're either going to be dependent on dirty oil from the Gulf or dirty oil from Canada," Clinton said after an Oct. 15 speech at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. "And until we can get our act together as a country and figure out that clean, renewable energy is in both our economic interests and the interests of our planet" the U.S. will remain dependent on oil, she said.
                             More at link but this is the part that is pertinent

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101022/ap_on_bi_ge/us_oil_pipeline_clinton


The way I read this, is just hype for the pipeline, we just had the spill in the gulf, which regardless of the hype was fairly messy, and was ultimately due to trying to work 5,000 from your equipment, under conditions that you could not control or compensate for.
The  "dirty oil from Canada" refers to "oil impregnated sand"
We would all definitely benefit from advances in wind and solar technologies, and she is a liberal, and if we don't come up with other primary sources we will be dependent on oil, kind of a "well DUH" moment.

My question is, what's the big deal ? No one gets excited when some politician gives away National Security information at a fund raiser, or a leak to a reporter, this may not be a done deal yet, but it sounds like a mere "due diligence" formality, and this is no different than promoting any other new project.
Will this not bring jobs to Gulf Coast refineries ?
Is there a bunch of Pork and BS amendments attached to it ?
Or is Hitlery just to moderate for the communist's in the Party drivers sat ?

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Never mind, I read the rest of it, The Greenie's are mad about dirt