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INdemo

(6,994 posts) Sat Mar 10, 2012, 09:59 AM Mar 2012

How much would the keystone pipeline help US consumers?

This article lays out all the advantages and disadvantages and this pipeline would not lower our gas prices ...in fact in the midwest we could actually see an increase in gas prices.. and more greenhouse gases.

Higher oil prices in the Midwest?
But others, including environmentalists who oppose the pipeline mainly because extracting oil from tar sands releases more greenhouse gases than other methods of harvesting oil, also argue the pipeline will do little or nothing to boost US energy security and will actually lead to higher oil prices in the Midwest.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46689167/ns/us_news-christian_science_monitor/

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How much would the keystone pipeline help US consumers? (Original Post) INdemo Mar 2012 OP

The Kalamazoo oil spill is enough to nix it exboyfil Mar 2012 #1

It makes sense if you want to export it TexasBushwhacker Sep 2012 #2

exboyfil

(17,865 posts)

1. The Kalamazoo oil spill is enough to nix it

Reply to INdemo (Original post)

Sat Mar 10, 2012, 03:58 PM

Mar 2012

Without any other considerations. If you can get past the carbon release, the only thing that really makes sense is to refine the stuff closer to the source. Send it across the entire U.S.? It makes absolutely no sense.

TexasBushwhacker

(20,205 posts)

2. It makes sense if you want to export it

Reply to exboyfil (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 26, 2012, 05:12 PM

Sep 2012

Since they are unwilling to support legislation guarantee that the oil will be sold to the US, it does nothing to increase US security. Sending it down to the Gulf Coast refineries simply makes it easier to ship out on tankers to the highest bidder. It doesn't help the US in any way except for some temporary jobs to build it and a few hundred jobs to maintain it.

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