And so ******* what? It takes hundreds of men and women to build a highway and how many permanent jobs result from the construction of that highway?
Does that negate the economic benefit to those construction workers on the highway?
when they're ultimately working for export to foreign countries and the inevitable tar sands spills? Yes.
Cripes you don't get it either!!!!!!!!!!!! Aye carumba!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Keystone XL is a pipeline. A moving company if you will to move a product from point A to point B. They don't own the OIL for crying out loud.
They aren't refining the oil. They are just moving the bloody stuff to customers.
What your refineries decide to do with their finished product has nothing to do with the pipeline company.
And here's an FYI. A big FYI.
Will refined products from Keystone XL be exported?
It should be noted that Keystone XL transports crude oil, not refined products. TransCanada is an energy infrastructure company. We build energy infrastructure like pipelines, natural gas-fired power plants and wind farms.
We don’t actually extract or own a single molecule of oil or natural gas that we transport. We are contracted to build the infrastructure to safely deliver those molecules to their destination. We don’t own the oil we transport, much like a moving company doesn’t own your bed during a move.
With that being said, we can provide insight into what happens to those products when they are refined.
Crude oil is not exclusively used to produce gasoline
Crude oil is used to produce thousands of products that we use every day, not just gasoline and diesel. Crude oil feedstock is used to create the plastics that encase our cell phones and televisions, asphalt for our roads and even the latex gloves doctors use when delivering a baby.
The people suggesting that the oil Keystone XL will transport will be used to exclusively to make gasoline or diesel is simply a guess and they know that.
The United States consumes the vast majority of its refined products
The claim that “
much of this oil is for export” is actually contrary to the facts, market analysis and what actual refiners and customers of Keystone XL have said.
The fact is the U.S. consumes the vast majority of all the refined products it produces. In 2012, only
about 9% of U.S. refined on-road motor fuel was exported – the other 91 per cent was consumed in the United States first.
State Department’s finds Keystone XL won’t impact export trends
The State Department’s market analysis in Keystone XL’s final supplemental environmental impact statement
states, “U.S. product exports are not sensitive to different scenarios of pipeline development.”
Essentially saying that exports occur (and have occurred for more than 20 years) with or without Keystone XL and the project would not impact those those trends.
What do our customers say?
Bill Day, spokesperson for oil refining company Valero, has
told media that the export allegations are, “completely wrong” and that “Over the past several quarters, Valero has exported less than 10 per cent of the gasoline it makes.
The vast majority of what we make in the U.S. stays in the U.S.”
We also know that tens of thousands of jobs are tied to refining and creating the products we need and use every day. Supporting the domestic refining industry with more domestic oil at lower prices keeps the industry competitive,
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