that was a completely empty argument for you are right about the pipeline. if it doesn t go by pipeline, this oil, or in the dakota project, it ends up in railcars which is much dirtier. the pollution is at least twice as much and dangerous. there was an accident in quebec of a rail shipment of crude oil that wiped out half a town and dozens of human beings bird we are not talking about abstractions with carbon in the air. there was never a strong argument. it was always to symbolism. the obama administration was craven lee cynical, putting it off because its own state department concluded it was not going to hurt the environment. i agree that in the end, what s going to have the most effect is the directive to streamline the permitting of other projects in the future.