Now Republican's Have Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Saying He Won't take No for an Answer on the Keystone XL Pipeline

As to the Keystone XL Pipeline "I will not take NO for an answer"

  Canadian Prime Minister says:

 "I Won't Take No for an Answer"

Who the hell does Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper think he is? This is the attitude made possible by the arrogant oil and gas industry profit makers. Those pushing for the Keystone XL Pipeline are so sure their money will get this pipeline approved that they have leaders of foreign countries talking like they don't care what our president or the American people want.

Harper said it will create 40,000 jobs in the U.S., this is a lie, Although it may create 2,500 temporary construction jobs for about two years it will ultimately provide no more than 50-100 permanent jobs once operational.

From an Omaha.com article Rep. Lee Terry (R-OM) on the House Energy and Commerce Committee wanted a sit down with President Obama back on August 1, 2013 because he was concerned that comments made by the White House may  indicate the president is poised to kill the politically charged project.

In a letter to the President he said “Your recent comments have only added to the immense amount of uncertainty that currently surrounds the Keystone XL approval process, unnecessarily jeopardizing $7 billion in private investment.”

The pipeline would transport more than 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries. But what is not talked about is that none of that oil will be used in the U.S. It will be shipped to China and other foreign nations. The pipeline is owned by Shell and a Saudi Arabian company.

“Republicans have said that this would be a big jobs generator,” Obama said in an interview with the New York Times. “There is no evidence that that's true. The most realistic estimates are this might create maybe 2,000 jobs during the construction of the pipeline, which might take a year or two, and then after that we're talking about somewhere between 50 and 100 jobs in an economy of 150 million working people.”

 “They keep on talking about this — an oil pipeline coming down from Canada that's estimated to create about 50 permanent jobs — that's not a jobs plan,” Obama said.

 “Including direct, indirect, and induced effects, the proposed project would potentially support approximately 42,100 average annual jobs across the United States over a 1- to 2- year construction period (of which, approximately 3,900 would be directly employed in construction activities),” a State Department report said.

 “Operation of the proposed project would generate 35 permanent and 15 temporary jobs, primarily for routine inspections, maintenance, and repairs,” the report said. “Based on this estimate, routine operation of the proposed pipeline would have negligible socioeconomic impacts.” http://www.omaha.com/article/20130801/NEWS/130809925/1685#lee-terry-to-president-obama-let-s-talk-about-keystone
 

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Keystone XL Pipeline Will Raise Gasoline Prices, Not Just Environmental Concerns

HuffPost Politics September 28, 2013: The last thing Americans, or the American economy needs, is another jump at the gas pump. A new report by Consumer Watchdog finds that's what America will get if the president approves Keystone XL pipeline: a 25 cent to 40 cent gas price hike in the Midwest, and pain at the pump all the way to California.

Relatively cheap Canadian tar sands crude, which is more than half of the crude oil used in Midwest refineries, and increasingly the source of Western refiners, will get a lot more expensive if the XL pipeline developers have their ways. Their articulated goal for the global market: raising the price per barrel of Canadian tar sand oil by $30, from $70 now charged to the $100 per barrel now commanded by Mexican Maya crude oil in the Gulf.

Current events also put into question the alternatives to Keystone XL for anything other than an export pipeline. The Quebec crude oil train disaster on July 6 (50 dead, tremendous destruction) has strengthened opponents of rail transport, sharpening focus on Keystone XL. If pressure will mount against the tar sands crude being transported via rail to the Canadian coast for export, and if there will be no pipeline through West Canada, then the Keystone XL is the main line to markets in Asia and Europe for the cheap tar sands crude. That means Americans will bear the risk of the pipeline and not see any reward. Why would the President of the United States of America want that?

So, all for Shell and a Saudi Arabian company to make billions of dollars Americans are to take the environmental risks, and pay 25 to 40 cents more for gasoline we now have the Canadian Prime Minister saying he won't take no for an answer? Who the hell does he, and the likes of Shell, the Koch brothers and a Saudi Arabian company think they are disrespecting the President of the United States?

It's time to contact your Senators and Congressmen and tell them ENOUGH! Kill the Keystone XL Pipeline and all the lies about it. Tell the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper that if America says NO, it's NO!

To contact your Senators use this link: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

To contact your Congressmen use this link:  http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/