Give Me One Good Reason Obama Should Approve Keystone XL

Tanks of unrefined oil in Cushing, Oklahoma, where there’s a glut of crude in storage — Tanks of unrefined oil in Cushing, Oklahoma, where there’s a glut of crude in storagePhotograph by Shane Bevel/Bloomberg

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By Brad Wieners

March 7, 2014 at 6:45 PM UTC

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Really, there could be two:

1. President Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, and economic growth-focused Washington want China as America’s new BFF and plan to let Beijing know by offering up an energy supply from our friends to the North.