How many jobs would the Keystone pipe line create?

How do the oil companies justify putting a pipe line from Canada to Texas will create jobs and lower the price?

• How will it lower gas prices? every time a bad wind blows the refiners have to shut down. the capacity of our refineries we are told are maxed to the limit is why gas prices are high. We are already exporting our oil to foreign countries and at the same time we pay high prices to import oil from the mid east countries that we have to send our troops to defend. Now we have a foreign country that wants to destroy our countries midlands with a pipe line. How will it be refined? We need to make more refineries first to show that this is feasible and show that all of the american people will reap the profits of such a since less project. "I have a suggestion, stop importing other countries oil and stop exporting our oil and gas to other countries and that will solve our dependency on foreign countries who constantly want to hold us hostage. Let them eat their own oil.

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  By lying? But then, you got it all wrong too. Have you any idea of how much oil we import and how much we export? http://www.indexmundi.com/energy.aspx?country=us If the U.S. stops importing oil, the whole U.S. economy collapses and people will starve. http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6575 http://www.fapri.missouri.edu/outreach/publications/2005/FAPRI_UMC_Report_04_05.pdf "Energy independence" sounds great, but in reality, autarky is a loser. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autarky The Keystone pipeline may be a bad idea, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_Pipeline http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_risks_of_the_Keystone_XL_pipeline but your objections make you look like an idiot, and the oil companies the voice of sanity and reason. (BTW, you might also want to look at all the other pipelines in the U.S. and figure out why the Keystone pipeline is worse than all the others before you put your foot in your mouth again. http://www.pipeline101.com/Overview/crude-pl.html http://www.pipeline101.com/Overview/products-pl.html ) And no answers after more than 2 years of membership in Yahoo Answers - I'm impressed with your community spirit, your willingness to give and not just take. I foresee a great career as a politician for you.