After three years of permitting and sixty days extra, the Obama administration has failed to move forward with the Keystone XL pipeline.  Obama's indecision is caught between environmentalist wishes to prevent additional carbon based fuel from coming to market and the need of the nation to have jobs and energy independence.

The Canadian border is the longest, undefended border in the world; Canada is an energy partner; we share cultural and political ties with our neighbor.  Currently, pipelines run across the border as well as throughout the US; pipelines are safer, more environmentally favorable transportation than tanker ships.  

At this moment the USS Abraham Lincoln and the US 5th Fleet are defending free and unfettered access by world trade (oil) in the strait of Hormuz; besides the threat of a shooting war with Iran, we share few values with Saudi Arabia and the oil states.  Venezuela and Nigeria are not our political soul mates.  

Obama called Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who told the president Canada will seek to diversify its energy exports after Keystone was rejected. Harper “expressed his profound disappointment” with the Keystone decision, according to a statement from his office.  Canada will seek to export to China.

To those who are unemployed ... find a government subsidized job at the next Solyndra, because President Obama won't let you have a real, market driven job on the Keystone XL pipeline.