keystone pipeline a poison pill. two cars are driving down the highway and one has to blink first. i would have gone to the prom with you, al. i promise. you guys went to the same high school. that s just my sense. just a guess. we re very close. we re ten miles from each other. ten miles. that s true. i ve known this man since before you were born. 1995. 1995. exactly. but i think that the payroll tax cut and the pipeline is very interesting. first of all we have to remember, 54 democrats signed onto the pipeline before the environmental movement got going. and it is about 700,000 barrels of oil into the united states a year, which is half of our inported oil. so there is an argument for the pipeline. most of the best argument, though, is tens of thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars to states. now, that doesn t mean that the environmental issues don t have to be taken care of.