Toledo Blade: President Obama is taking flak by advocates on the left and right for his failure to provide decisive action on the Keystone XL pipeline, which would cut across the United States to transport Canadian oil to the gulf coast.
But for all the controversy the pipeline project has created, it doesn't offer much in the way of economic benefits, as its advocates claim. Nor would it spell climate disaster, as environmental activists assert. The pipeline shouldn't distract Americans from more salient issues...