By making the game a foregone conclusion of course . You can ' t win 5 v 6 . <| sep |> How much energy does it take to power a machine of this magnitude ? Does it remove more pollution than is made to power it ? <| sep |> There ' s zero reason to halt the progress no matter who is president . The government seized the lands under eminent domain and sold them to the oil company . If we didnt want this stuff to happen we should have stopped government seizure of private lands . Now that the oil company lawfully owns the land , there is no recourse without again violating private property rights . <| sep |> Well , that ' s my mistake . Sorry about that . <| sep |> Obamas words are just to please people that normally vote for him . They could ' ve killed or altered this thing years ago but didn ' t . Anyone who thinks Obama actually wants the pipeline to not be built needs to stop drinking the koolaid .