Monday #14 Keystone pipeline #3

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/opinion/nocera-the-poisoned-politics-of-keystone-xl.html
In this article, Joe Nocera shows some of the deeper problems with the Keystone pipeline. He starts out by telling that Canada has switched to trying to send the oil over to China, not America. He also says that Obama really had no choice but to reject the pipeline, whether he had wanted to or not, because approving it would make him lose the support of environmentalists, who make up a large part of his core support. He also says that knowing this would happen, rejecting it put the republicans at a position of greater power because they could condemn his act saying it kept out much needed jobs. He finally said that this has freed up Canada to do more business with others, not just with America.