With Keystone XL dead, Alberta must move on renewable energy – The Gateway

Nov 6, 2015

Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline today for a variety of reasons, one of the biggest being the reduction of greenhouse emissions. He commented on the reduction of automobile emissions and consumption, the expansion of renewable energy sources, and so on. We’ve been getting much greener this past decade.

His examples are all great, and I agree that we should be working hard to replace oil with clean, renewable energy sources. I’m a big believer in using cars less and moving to sustainable and environmentally-friendly resources to reduce climate change. But as we live in a capitalist world, that’s not going to happen for many more years. Most cars still run on gasoline, and most things we use are made with petroleum products, including whatever device you’re reading this on. We’ll likely continue needing oil until becomes too scarce to be economical.

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