Irony: How Many Keystone Pipeline Protesters Arrested at the Capital Drove Gas-Powered Cars to Washington D.C.?

Some came from as far as New Orleans

03.03.2014 | News | Jerome Hudson |

Bill McKibben of the anti-global warming activist group 350, tweeted about the hundreds of students who were arrested during an Keystone XL pipeline prostest yesterday:

398 young people arrested at #xldissent at WH today, coincidentally the exact current concentration of co2 in air http://t.co/pT8altSu71

— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) March 3, 2014

About 1,000 prosters, many of them students, took to the Washington D.C. yesterday to urge, “climate action and a rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline,” said Nick Stracco, a senior at Tulane University.

Nearly 400 of the event’s protesters were arrested.

But how many anti-fossil fuels freedom fighters got into oil and gas-powered cars, buses, planes, and trains to apply pressure to the jet-setter-in-chief Barack Obama in protest of the expansion of an oil pipeline?

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Jerome Hudson has written for numerous national outlets, including The Hill, National Review, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and was recognized as one of Florida’s emerging stars, having been included in the list “25 Under 30: Florida’s Rising Young Political Class.” Hudson is a Savannah, Ga. native who currently resides in Florida.

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