National Review Online: Cruz: Greenpeace Activists Should Support Keystone
It’s a tough sell, but you can’t fault him for trying. In a speech on energy policy at Heritage Action’s Conservative Policy Summit today, Sen. Ted Cruz, the Republican freshman from Texas, said environmentalists should be enthusiastic supporters of the Keystone XL Pipeline construction.
“If you are a birkenstock-wearing, tree-hugging Greenpeace activist, you should love the Keystone pipeline,” he said.
Cruz said the pipeline will reduce America’s dependency on oil from overseas, which is transported by tankers vulnerable to spilling. He also argued that construction will mean oil from Canada’s tar sands will be refined in cleaner American facilities rather than in Chinese ones.
“If your concern is the environment, the last thing you want to do is send that oil to be refined there,” he said.
