The pipeline is a deal for Canada not the USA and this is why.
This pipeline isn’t about providing benefits for, or making the USA energy independent. Factually it will cause the price of gasoline to rise in the Midwest which currently enjoys an oversupply of product from Canada.
It is about the taking of sovereign rights of USA citizens and landowners by foreign corporations by eminent domain so to maximize their profits, not USA benefits. The USA is nothing but the conduit to enable unrefined Canadian oil to be shipped to a global market and then have it bid up by the Chinese. In the end much of the oil will by-pass USA refineries too.
This proves that neither Party knows how to work in the interest of the USA as a nation. Congress is owned by global corporations instead of working for USA citizens. As Donald Trump would say, only an incompetent corrupt Congress would give foreign corporations access to USA land without negotiating a deal giving advantageous and long term benefits to the USA.
Why is there no deal that accompanies this pipeline to provide the USA with guarantees on supply of this oil that traverses the USA, and also require use of our refineries?
The only “advantage” for the USA that this pipeline offers is from short term employment while they are building it. I agree with Trump that Congress is made up of politicians, fools and traitors. This pipeline deal is analogous to a private individual owning a piece of valuable land that a neighboring corporation desperately needs, and the deal that is cut via eminent domain turns over perpetual rights to his property for access in exchange for the corporation giving the landowner a temporary job building their road.
The same rented fools in Congress who absurdly gave Asia our economy, open access to the USA and world’s largest consumer market with no concessions from Asia, are still screwing us for the benefit of other nations..
So how do you feel about this statement from the article?:
Tar sands oil is a gigantic climate disaster waiting to happen.
Factually it will cause the price of gasoline to rise in the Midwest which currently enjoys an oversupply of product from Canada. The bottleneck in Cushing is going to be eliminated regardless of this pipeline going in or not. That price differential between WTI and Global supply is not goint to last much longer. It has already begun to reduce and other pipeline projects are proceding anyways. This was just another red herring thrown up to scare people without looking at what was happening outside this one pipeline project.
For example:
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2011/12/21/seaway-pipeline-reversal-project-announces-open-season/
The USA is nothing but the conduit to enable unrefined Canadian oil
More nonsense designed to scare people. There is already planned a project for even more oil to export on the Gateway pipeline. Transcanada is not building a longer pipeline to farther away port from other markets just to export. That export will happen but it will be with the Gateway pipeline. Shipping oil through the Keystone XL to Gulf Coast would not be competitive with the Gateway pipeline.
The only “advantage” for the USA that this pipeline offers is from short term employment while they are building it.
Perhaps you've heard of OPEC? We buy more oil from them than Canada or any other country. Perhaps you think that is good for us, but I would rather send more dollars to Canada than to OPEC.