Posted on 01/06/2023 10:56:06 AM PST by Red Badger
Just how bad was Joe Biden’s decision upon taking office to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline? We now have an admission directly from Biden’s own administration.
According to a newly-released report from the Department of Energy, which cited a variety of studies on the economic impact of the pipeline’s construction, the cancellation of Keystone XL cost somewhere between 16,149 and 59,000 jobs. Lost GDP from the project is also estimated to be between $3.4 billion and $9.6 billion.
Even when you only consider the SEIS, which is the government’s environmental impact study, the numbers of jobs and money involved aren’t small potatoes.
The 2014 Final SEIS estimated that about 42,100 total jobs, or 21,050 jobs annually, would be created if construction were to take two years (direct, indirect, and induced), as well as $2.05 billion in earnings in the United States. About 3,900 of these jobs would be direct construction jobs in Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas. The project was expected to support 50 jobs during the operation. The SEIS estimated that the construction of the KXL pipeline would contribute $3.4 Billion (or 0.02 percent) to the United States Gross Domestic Product.
The cop-out here still being pushed by the DOE is the idea that the pipeline would only have created 50 permanent jobs. That’s a farce for several reasons. For starters, I’ve never heard of a pipeline that’s 1200 miles long and only requires 50 people to maintain it, from those on the ground to those flying pipeline patrol from the air.
Regardless, that’s not really relevant because the “temporary” jobs still mattered. There are entire industries full of contract workers that make a living moving between “temporary” jobs. Any individual construction project, for example, might only last a few years, but a few years of employment remains employment. How many people suffered because Biden needed to make a meaningless sacrifice to the “climate crisis.”
Besides, there wasn’t even anything good for the climate in canceling Keystone XL. America is now more dependent on foreign oil and the longer supply lines that come with that, producing more carbon emissions in the process. In the end, pipelines offer a lower impact than ships, trains, and semi-trucks. Never mind the more important aspect of all this, which was the foreign policy disaster that resulted in giving away all our leverage, causing a mad scramble to try to get more oil from places like Venezuela.
Sen. Steve Daines of Montana, whose state was heavily impacted by Biden’s decision to scrap Keystone XL, put out this statement.
The Biden administration finally owned up to what Montanans have known all along — killing the Keystone XL pipeline cost good-paying jobs, hurt Montana’s economy and was the first step in the Biden admin’s war on oil and gas production in the United States.
And as if to put a fine point on how out of control and corrupt the US government is, this report came out a year after it was mandated to be released within 90 days. Daines and others had successfully inserted the 90-day provision into Biden’s infrastructure bill, which passed in November of 2021. The DOE completely ignored it, no doubt wanting to wait until after the 2022 election to release the report, technically breaking the law in the process.
Will any price be paid for any of this? Of course, not. Biden can make terrible decisions, flaunting the law in order to cover them up, and all he’ll receive are shrugs. There’s no accountability because those charged with holding him accountable are on his side politically.
Well, if Butt-Head weren’t so beholden to the environ-MENTAL-ists and climate cultists, he could change his mind, assuming Trans-Canada is willing to sign back on.
Warren Buffett and his deadly oil choo-choos, destroying small Canadian towns in fiery explosions.
It would have made that oil more competitive to refineries that have the ability to increase production.
Keystone II also could have transported oil from ND.
By turning that oil into petroleum products it can also lower our trade deficit because much of those petroleum distillates get sold outside the USA.
Wait until Canada builds the new pipeline from Alberta directly to the BC coast. Then it will be the least expensive oil in the Pacific Ocean.
The current pipeline to Vancouver is also being doubled in size.
The only benefit to these pipelines will be to the consumers in CA, OR & WA.
Thanks. I wish Republicans would talk about this stuff more rather than crap from Hannity.
Watermelon environmentalists.
Religious reasons...
59,000 jobs. Lost GDP from the project is also estimated to be between $3.4 billion and $9.6 billion.
And that was his first day in office and nothing got better.
Two more years of hell and hopelessness.
“Two more years of hell and hopelessness.”
Are you living out of your car? I’m doing pretty good but then again, I take responsibility for myself
Everything the tottering old fool has done is a disaster.
He and his gang are not slowing down.
hes not able to determine shit. he can barely read the teleprompter!! redirect your fire toward the correct targets... his handlers!!
Oh but they saved billions of lives and trillions of dollars saving the universe from the evyils of oil.
Are you taking responsibility for the inflation and 5.5 million illegal wondering all over the country like cockroaches and testing every door for one that isn’t locked drugs that are killing people by the thousands.........
That's collateral damage to Democrats. Democrats love collateral damage.
When civilians die during President Bush's "Shock and Awe," Democrats decry the collateral damage.
When President Trump takes out Iran's Soleimani, Democrats question the cost in collateral damage.
But when Bill Clinton bombs an aspirin factory, silence.
When ISIS attacks our embassy in Benghazi, silence.
When Biden bombs an Afghani aid worker and his family, silence.
-PJ
the cancellation of Keystone XL cost somewhere between 16,149 and 59,000 jobs....
I would bet it was way more than that. Keystone XL was to bring Canadian crude oil all the way down to the refineries in Port Arthur, Texas. The refineries in the are upgraded and expanded to accomodate the increased input. Lots of union jobs. Those jobs went away with Joe’s handlers cancelled the pipeline. Joe screwed his union supporters.
I’m having a tough time working up a tear.
“Are you taking responsibility for the inflation and 5.5 million illegal wondering all over the country like cockroaches and testing every door for one that isn’t locked drugs that are killing people by the thousands.........”
Nope. Not my problem. If it’s your problem, then do something about it. Let me know when you take care of it.
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