Put some of the many bills that went into limbo under Harry Reid's leadership up for a vote and get them to the President to either sign or veto. Starting with the excel pipeline I think we have waited long enough for a decision on that.
Why do you want the pipeline constructed? It will increase the price of refined gasoline in the Midwest.
bullshit.
Don't just say "bullshit." Explain yourself.
Once the pipeline is completed, the Canadian crude will be routed to port for sale and export to foreign markets. Right now, it comes down to U.S. markets and increases our supply, thereby driving down prices.
When the pipeline is completed (and it will be with Republican support), the available domestic supplies will decrease and prices will increase. It's not rocket science.
Do you people think anything through at all?
You left your statement unjustified. I didn't feel obligated to justify my reply.
No it's not rocket science at all. Oil is a world wide commodity.
More oil reduces prices, or don't you grasp supply and demand?
Except a pipeline is not an oil well so it does not produce more oil. There is decades more capacity in the pipelines we have now serving Canada than Canada has crude to ship. The Canadians themselves justified the expense of the Keystone XL by the $3.9 billion more Americans will pay for the crude!!!!
Keystone XL is a tar sands pipeline to export oil out of the United States Anthony Swift s Blog Switchboard from NRDC
One of the most important facts that is missing in the national debate surrounding the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is this –
Keystone XL will not bring any more oil into the United State for decades to come. Canada doesn’t have nearly enough oil to fill existing pipelines going to the United States. However, existing Canadian oil pipelines all go to the Midwest, where the only buyer for their crude is the United States. Keystone XL would divert Canadian oil from refineries in the Midwest to the Gulf Coast where it can be refined and exported. Many of these refineries are in Foriegn Trade Zones where oil may be exported to international buyers without paying U.S. taxes. And that is exactly what Valero, one of the largest potential buyers of Keystone XL's oil, has told its investors it will do. The idea that Keystone XL will improve U.S. oil supply is a documented scam being played on the American people by Big Oil and its friends in Washington DC.
The fact that Canada has excess pipeline capacity is well known. In a Department of Energy report evaluating Keystone XL's impacts on U.S. energy supply over the next twenty years, the agency found that it will take decades for Canada to produce enough oil to fill existing pipelines. On page 90, the report concludes that the United States will import the same amount of crude from Canada through 2030 whether or not Keystone XL is built.
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When
Canadian regulators at the National Energy Board (NEB) considered the Keystone XL proposal in 2008, they
asked TransCanada to justify another pipeline when there was already so much spare capacity. TransCanada conceded that Keystone XL would take oil from existing pipelines, increasing shipping costs. However,
TransCanada argued that this cost would be more than offset as shifting Canadian oil from the Midwest to the Gulf would increase the price that Americans paid for Canadian oil by $3.9 billion.
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Simply stated, Keystone XL is a way to get Canadian oil out of the United States, not into it.
