With the latest delay in the Keystone XL pipeline saga by the Obama administration, incoherent desperation is setting in among some Canadian oil industry experts. The real incoherence involves these incomplete analyses that distort an honest -- and much needed -- discussion of Canada-U.S. oil relations. The argument at play is that Keystone XL is being delayed because of Canada's "incoherence on climate." Such is naive. I very much doubt that President Barack Obama is truly concerned over Canada's greenhouse gas emissions. Here are the carbon dioxide emissions between 1950 and 2012 from fossil fuel combustion for the top five countries worldwide. See Canada on this graph? I didn't think so. And here are the U.S. sources of crude oil by country. So if the Obama administration is "killing Keystone" because of Canada's "incoherence on climate," then I suspect Obama is also demanding that its other major sources of crude oil...(Read Full Post)