Department of State says Tar Sands oil will flow anyhow. Why bother arresting Mexican Drug boss Gerardo Alvarez-Vazquez, aka “El Indio”?

Using the Department of State’s reasoning we shouldn’t bother arresting Mexican Drug cartel leaders because they will be quickly replaced.

Using the Department of State’s reasoning we shouldn’t bother arresting street dealers in Coatesville because they will be quickly replaced.

Using the Department of State’s reasoning we shouldn’t bother negotiating with Iran over nuclear weapons because some other country will do it anyway.

Using the Department of State’s reasoning why should we bother investigating Wall Street corruption?

Did the Department of State set a legal precedent?

“Approval or denial of any one crude oil transport project, including the proposed Project, remains unlikely to significantly impact the rate of extraction in the oil sands, or the continued demand for heavy crude oil at refineries in the U.S.”

“In other words, at least according to the State Department’s reckoning, while the environmental movement has made the Keystone XL pipeline a line in the sand for U.S. climate policy—and for the environmental legacy of President Obama, who has final say on the pipeline—the project itself will have little impact on carbon emissions and on climate change. Whether or not the pipeline is built, the oil sands crude will flow.”

Read more:

State Department Says No Environmental Reason to Block the Keystone XL Oil Sands Pipeline | TIME.com http://science.time.com/2013/03/01/state-dept-build-the-keystone-pipeline-or-not-the-oil-sands-crude-will-flow/#ixzz2s5Cg2ZVU