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I was just separating the protesters in the sentence so you could understand who I was taking about. Of course they're American and they care about their country. But are the protesters going to block the construction of the pipe for 4-8 years?

Let us hope so. I get where /u/gladsdotter is coming from however, and even after you made it clear in regards to your references, you still worded it as a they vs us context. If you had a different mentality, you would word it as "our country". At the end of the day, these people are fighting for the future that doesn't have environmental destruction all for the sake of creating some bullshit oil jobs that we all know will be offloaded to machines THE FIRST CHANCE these greedy corporations get.

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How much have you read about the environmental dangers of such a pipeline? Not to mention this is a lazy fix to the problem of society and innovation outpacing this absurd "solution". Seriously though, why pursue such outdated technology for the sake of a quick and rather localized economical fix, when embracing technology and innovation is literally always the better bet. Just look at China and India, they are killing it with their solar power expansion. Innovation triumphs, don't fight it... embrace it.

It's like you're trying to have a Socratic dialogue with a starved ferret.

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You have no idea. Wait 'til you get to junior high, you'll see.

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That's adorable. You think folks here'll buy it?