for anyone.

Right now, most of the oil from North Dakota and Canadian fields are bottle-necked in that HOW you can ship out the oil is limited. Thus they are limited to what one can ship, but not as to what one can produced. thus you have over production compared to users of the oil. i.e. Supply exceeds demand for oil in the area between Minnesota, Idaho and Colorado. That has kept prices DOWN in that area of the country compared to the rest of the US and the World.

The purpose of the Keystone pipeline is to open up a way to ship this oil to Texas, and thus the excess production would be used to satisfy world demand not just the upper Plains states.

Side Note: I hate the Term "Mid West" for it depends on who is talking to understand what that means. In this case it is the area between Minnesota, Idaho and Colorado. I have also seen it to mean the Area between Pittsburgh and Minnesota, centered around Chicago. I wish people would use terms more people understood AND I wish people would keep using a term as it has been used NOT as they would like it to mean. The term "Mid West" has became a term meaning NOT the east coast, but also not the West coast, but something in between.

Years ago, when the term was first invented usage of the term "Mid West" was restricted to the "Old Northwest" Territory that later became Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Pittsburgh was called a Mid Western City in an Eastern State for it is closer to Chicago then New York and large bulky cargo tend to come from New Orleans to Pittsburgh not over the Mountains from Philadelphia.

In recent decades I have read the term "Mid West" to mean Colorado to Minnesota to Idaho, i.e. the Northern Great Plains. The "West" had long ceased to include the West Coast, and is reserved for the Great Plains and the Western Mountains. Thus you have two different definitions of the same term, depending on who is using the term.

The only way out of this mess is to drop the term "Mid West" as becoming meaningless and use other terms. Thus I prefer to use the term the Great Plains for the area between the Rockies and the Mississippi River instead of the term "Mid West". The Northern Rockies for that area between the Great Plains and the Cascade Mountains. And the Term "Great Lakes Region" for that area between Pittsburgh, the Ohio River, the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River.

Just a comment on terms and that one should avoid using terms that may have different meanings to different people.