You cannot stop oil production globally by shutting down local pipelines. That is like burning down a CVS so that people will use less toilet paper. If you wa

You cannot stop oil production globally by shutting down local pipelines. That is like burning down a CVS so that people will use less toilet paper. If you want people to use less toilet paper, you need to alter demand - not production. Oil production just moves to jurisdictions that don't mind the externalities. On the other hand, if you remove a consumer, then you've eliminated that oil consumption globally.