Dear Mr. President:
An article in the May 18 issue of the New York Times addresses the problem of the mountain of coke outside of Detroit that is the product of refining Canadian tar sands oil. It has high sulphur and other environmentally bad content and cannot be burned in the US by EPA rules. So it is being shipped to China, India and Mexico where they don’t care much about the environment. This brings up the subject of the Keystone pipeline. We can forecast, without any doubt, that mountains of coke will be produced in Texas, and Texas will be a big shipping point to any buyers worldwide that can be found for it. This will be a big step backward in our efforts toward global warming abatement. Further, the Keystone pipeline is the medium through which Canada, exploiting its tar sands, can produce and ship refined petroleum products around the world, It will have little US benefit. I hope you will reconsider your support for the pipeline.
Sincerely,
Edward Hujsak
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