Why Joe Nocera is Wrong about Keystone XL

Last week Joe Nocera of the New York Times wrote two columns in defense of the Keystone XL pipeline. Read my two-part guest post on Think Progress/Green replying to each of Nocera's columns:

Part 1: I am usually a big fan of Joe Nocera, whether he is skewering Wall Street crooks or exposing the high-handed behavior of the NCAA, but he is all wrong about the Keystone XL pipeline. He claims that Obama, in his “centrist heart of hearts,” also favors KXL. If so, the President is wrong, too. Read the rest of Part 1 >>> 

Part 2: Joe Nocera replies to his Keystone XL critics in “The Politics of Keystone, Take 2” in Saturday’s New York Times. He still doesn’t get it. Like many people, Nocera doesn’t seem to understand the relationship between energy use and energy prices. Read the rest of Part 2>>>