Impact of Killing the Keystone XL

The Dickinson Press has a story today about a Whiting pipeline that will be operational later next month.

It is a 7-mile long pipeline northeast of Belfield. Seven miles long.

It cost $3 million and it will replace upwards of 275 trucks/day.

275 trucks per day.

The $3 million stayed in the US economy: steel mills for the pipe, trucks to transport the pipe, heavy duty equipment to dig the trenches; high-paying jobs; money for rights-of-way to land owners. And once it's done, out-of-sight and out-of-mind.

Now imagine the amount of money that would have poured in the US economy had the Keystone XL project been approved and the amount of truck and train traffic it would have replaced -- both contributing to greenhouse gas emissions (for those so inclined to worry about such things). 

The link to the Dickinson Press story is here.

Wow, that's hard to believe -- a 7-mile long, $3 million pipeline that will replace 275 trucks per day and the Keystone XL killed by faux-environmentalists.

Although, from the perspective of jobs, that's a lot of jobs for truck drivers.