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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDoes the green helmet guy advertisment bug anyone else?
I don't like advertisements that come out with the President's name, then I'm supposed to convince or otherwise influence him to do what the advertisement wants. And I'm far from convinced that the Keystone XL pipeline is even a good idea.
The GOP is for it, so automatically it's a good idea to be skeptical.
Here's a bit more info on the subject.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_Pipeline
Mainly though, the guy in the helmet's smirky face just irks me. Pardon me please, but it just does.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)from the very dirty, energy-intensive extraction of oil from the Canadian tar sands, to the possibility/probability of pipeline ruptures, to the greenhouse gases that will result from burning that crap, that it is a thought-crime against the biosphere to even contemplate it.
Kurmudgeon
(1,751 posts)It's very insistent, I don't like being beat over the head with ideas that just become more and more obviously bad.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)I had no idea that you were talking about an ad on DU.