{"id":3234,"date":"2013-04-02T09:29:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T13:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3234"},"modified":"2013-04-02T09:29:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T13:29:07","slug":"seven-things-you-learn-driving-the-length-of-the-keystone-xl-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/04\/seven-things-you-learn-driving-the-length-of-the-keystone-xl-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven things you learn driving the length of the Keystone XL pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Keystone-pipeline-route.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3235\" alt=\"Keystone-pipeline-route\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Keystone-pipeline-route-200x300.png\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Keystone-pipeline-route-200x300.png 200w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Keystone-pipeline-route-100x150.png 100w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Keystone-pipeline-route.png 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve heard a lot about the Keystone pipeline these past few years \u2014\u00a0which, if approved, would carry oil from the tar sands of Alberta down to refineries in the Gulf Coast. Supporters say the pipeline will improve U.S. energy security. Environmentalists say the tar sands will prove disastrous for global warming.<\/p>\n<p>That debate can get a bit abstract at times. And so, to make things more concrete, my colleague Steven Mufson decided to take a road trip last summer down the length of the proposed Keystone route, from Alberta to Texas.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s written the whole trip up in an excellent new e-book \u201cKeystone XL: Down The Line.\u201d\u00a0The book is a fairly quick read and\u00a0really offers a fascinatingly detailed look at many of the issues raised by the pipeline. It\u2019s highly recommended for anyone interested in energy and environmental topics.<\/p>\n<p>Here are seven interesting things about the Keystone XL pipeline I came across in the book \u2014 though keep in mind there\u2019s a lot more in there:<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2013\/04\/01\/seven-things-you-learn-driving-the-length-of-the-keystone-xl-pipeline\/\" target=\"_blank\">Seven things you learn driving the length of the Keystone XL pipeline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve heard a lot about the Keystone pipeline these past few years \u2014\u00a0which, if approved, would carry oil from the tar sands of Alberta down to refineries in the Gulf Coast. Supporters say the pipeline will improve U.S. energy security. Environmentalists say the tar sands will prove disastrous for global warming. That debate can get&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[111,257,22],"tags":[1674,614,1673,1009],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3237,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions\/3237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}