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Former Obama ‘Car Czar’: President Should Approve Keystone Pipeline

Posted By Lachlan Markay On January 5, 2012 @ 10:40 am In Energy and Environment,Scribe,video | 4 Comments

“We need the energy, we need the jobs, and it can be done in a safe way.”

That was former Obama administration official Steve Rattner’s take on the would-be windfalls of the Keystone XL pipeline. “My instinct is [Obama] should approve it,” Rattner told a panel on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Thursday.

Rattner was the administration’s “Car Czar,” appointed to oversee the bailout of General Motors and the ensuing restructuring agreement.

Jobs, energy, and safety are all laudatory goals, and Keystone meets all three, as Heritage’s Nick Loris has pointed out ^[1].

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[1] pointed out: http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/12/unnecessary-keystone-xl-pipeline-delay-obstructs-energy-jobs

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