Comments by "silat13" (@silat13) on "How Many Jobs Will Keystone XL Create?" video.

  1.   Keystone XL is an export pipeline. According to presentations to investors, Gulf Coast refiners plan to refine the cheap Canadian crude supplied by the pipeline into diesel and other products for export to Europe and Latin America. Proceeds from these exports are earned tax-free. Much of the fuel refined from the pipeline’s heavy crude oil will never reach U.S. drivers’ tanks. 
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  2.   Study: KXL Pipeline Would Raise U.S. Gas Prices | Consumer Watchdog, a nationally recognized nonprofit consumer group, has reviewed corporate, industry and government data and found that pipeline developers and the Canadian government intend to use the controversial Keystone XL pipeline to raise the price of Canadian tar sands oil on the global market by shipping oil directly to the Gulf. This would raise U.S. gas prices in the Midwest by up to 40 cents a gallon. “Keystone XL is not an economic benefit to Americans who will see higher gas prices and bear all the risks of the pipeline,” said report author Judy Dugan. “The pipeline is being built through America, but not for Americans.” Key findings from the report: - Drivers, especially in the Midwest, would pay 20 cents to 40 cents more at the pump if the disputed pipeline were built, as the current discount of up to $30 a barrel for Canadian oil disappears. - The true goal of multinational oil companies and Canadian politicians backing the pipeline is to reach export outlets outside the U.S. for tar sands oil and refined fuels, which would drive up the oil’s price. - With U.S. oil production rising fast, any “energy security” benefit for the U.S. would vanish as American oil output exceeds that of Saudi Arabia in about 2020, according to the International Energy Agency.
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  3.  Oil companies in North Dakota fail to report almost 300 oil spills since 2012 http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/25/oil-companies-in-north-dakota-fails-to-report-almost-300-oil-spills-since-2012/
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  4.   Fighting Keystone  “This is not your mother’s everyday crude,” she explained by phone in her matter-of-fact Texas drawl. “What’s coming out of Alberta is corrosive, it’s the consistency of peanut butter and it’s pumped at much higher pressures. When it spills in a waterway it does not float. It sinks to the bottom.” The details of how bitumen behaves in water are important because TransCanada’s plan was to lay the pipe under the Boise d’Arc Creek, which Crawford uses to irrigate her corn and soybean fields. “If that water is contaminated, it’s going to flow straight down to my pumps,” Crawford says. “There’s been drought for the past two years in Texas. I can’t do without water.” http://billmoyers.com/2013/12/19/meet-the-texas-farmer-taking-on-the-keystone-pipeline/
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  5.    Keystone:The U.S. State Department, which must green light the project, forecasts just 5,000 direct U.S. jobs over a two year construction period.  Even according to TransCanada, the amount of permanent jobs created would be only in the hundreds. Meanwhile, one study from Cornell University said the pipeline could actually lead to a decline in jobs in the long run. One reason is that the pipeline would lead to higher fuel prices in the Midwest, the study said, and that would slow consumer spending and cost jobs. The study also said jobs could also be lost due to crop failures or other events associated with higher pollution levels the oil sands would bring. And it said more oil would mean a decline in green jobs.  http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/13/news/economy/keystone_pipeline_jobs/index.htm
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  6. K1productions We do not have a massive debt to China. Try doing some research instead of listening to reichwing media.
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  7.   KEYSTONE K0CH PIPELINE TRUTH The KS pipeline (25% Koch owned) will bring oil from the Koch owned tar sands ( 2,000,000 acres Koch owned representing approx 65%) to two Koch owned Corpus Christi refineries for processing and shipment to Latin America, Europe, and China. The benefit to the US? Not a single drop of this oil will be used in the US The processing will remove capacity for domestic refining and could lead to an increase in US gas prices. It will pass over one of the largest aquifers , the Ogallala Aquifer, which is responsible for irrigating 30% of american agriculture. 2000 short term jobs, 200 long term jobs and untold thousands of jobs cleaning up spills of the dirtiest oil ,diluted with poison and heated to make it flow through our country. (the existing part of the KS pipe has already had over 12 spills) The main benefit, the Koch brothers add $50,000,000,000 to their already $72,000,000,000 fortune.
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