[Former Proud Canadian]

Ok. Here's the deal. TransCanada builds pipelines and moves oil. There is A LOT of oil being produced in Northern Alberta. The producers of that oil lined up customers in the gulf region, a large refinery complex. The existing infrastructure in the gulf was a perfect fit to the grade of oil to be delivered. Plus, there is an existing network of product pipelines and storage facilities to store and move the refined products to market.

The Keystone XL would simply move raw materials to the processing plants in Texas which would refine it and ship it to market.

Obama made a purely political decision that will cost America thousands of jobs, a secure supply of oil and, as a bonus, send those jobs and that oil to America's avowed enemy, China.

I don't know what else to say. I don't know how else to explain it. I don't understand your post.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

I don't understand your post.

OK, let me boil it down.

Why not build the pipeline from Canada to TX through oil friendly states instead of just defaulting to China?