[TheRealVille]

Hopefully, the economy will not be a wreck forever. As it strengthens, American's ability to fill their cars with gas will improve. You can't wait until you have an energy crisis to figure out how to increase the supply to meet the new demand.

Besides, as long as our refineries are producing more gasoline than they can sell here, what is wrong with putting Americans to work and exporting gasoline? Would you rather Canada tie up its oil in contracts with China and improve its energy security at our expense?

At the most(Canada's amount) there will be 20,000 jobs during construction. According to other surveys, there will be around 4500 construction jobs(union, BTW, under any Administration). On a nationwide job scale, even the high figure isn't much. When built, the pumping stations along the way will be unmanned. Like I say, I'm for it, but I think another route would be better. Look at the map at the link, they already have a pipeline going through the US, and this one will go through the largest source of freshwater in the US. Why can't they just tie onto the old line in IL., and then go south from there? It was just put into production in 2010.

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