THE PIPELINE THAT WOULDN'T DIE. Keystone XL oil construction, regardless of its cropping up continuously in bills and battled against by environmentalists, has been resuscitated a third time after promises of its being put to rest by the president. Yesterday President Obama assured everyone that it would be built from Cushing to the gulf. This decision, after environmental activists part of the democratic base that elected President Obama had been arrested outside the White House protesting it, and after a sudden change of heart by a good portion of the American public on not using the price of oil as a tenet to evaluate a president in an election, also coincided with a recent speech by Santorum, that blasted global warning as a myth, much to the delight and hooted agreement of his audience. For that matter, all three Republican candidates are for drilling, and more drilling, and then some, even though the environmental hazards are considerable and getting worse and although they express concern for the cost of gasoline, much like the rest of the country triumph a free market, which leads to oil being sold outside of the country and at prices decided by the market,or the same old same old, with any alternative, including trade laws simply too involving of the government to even consider in a country where a vociferous mass roars about socialism as a step away from God and a hop towards the devil, and even resents the term sociology, France and the Scandinavian countries be damned. For that matter, add Labour to the incandescent mix, and you would get benefits outweighing the 1% to the considerable advantage of the country. The pipeline is said to traverse an area billions and billions of galaxies away from aquifers, but leakage is inevitable, all the while a clear vision of converting to clean energy and electric cars in the years with tax incentives, as the president himself was planning, seems to have lost its impetus. And Obama holds on,a steady light at least on Medicare, which he has cut, but the Republicans, through Ryan's budget, want to destroy with an inane voucher system.