Curious since this topic came up again... Has anyone else here done the “bigger picture” real homework and research about the pros and cons of the Keystone pipeline? I researched it for over a month when they were talking about building it and found BS talking points on both sides.
What I realized is if you completely remove the BS “environmental” excuses and reasoning, it still made no sense from an “economic” perspective in whole. There are a lot of misrepresentations including how many jobs it would have created in the end.
A hint in reasoning of the true situation would be... Low sulfur crude being piped to refineries that are already over burdened just trying to refine enough sweet crude to supply our own national needs. The EPA will never let us use and burn any fuels made from low sulfur crude in this country. It would all be refined for export only, but the added burden on the limited capacity of the refineries would double the price of domestic products we are allowed to burn here by the EPA.
As hard as it is for me to even think this, it may actually have a silver lining when the true economic cause and effect in the end is considered in the bigger picture. I know I will get hit for this... But there are a whole lot of real world aspects and variables not being considered with this.
Correction “High” sulfur crude being piped here”...