Want Lower Gas Prices? Support Keystone XL!

Senator Graham discusses high gas prices and the need for an 'all of the above' energy policy to decrease our dependence on foreign oil on WVOC radio with host Keven Cohen on April 11, 2012.



Here are eight reasons for loving Keystone XL: Source (Ironically enough)
1. Keystone XL is totally market-driven. This $7 billion shovel-ready project will be funded entirely by private investment. Taxpayers will not be on the hook for any new government spending or loan guarantees.
2. Keystone XL will help alleviate pain at the pump. As the Perryman Group explains, a stable expectation of “incremental supplies from reliable sources leads to lower costs, thereby putting downward pressure on prices.” Or, as James Burkhard of IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates puts it, “A more flexible and robust supply system is better able to manage supply and demand developments, which is a big positive for the U.S. economy and consumers.”
3. Keystone XL will help stabilize gasoline prices. As former Canadian Energy Minister Murray Smith observes, unlike tanker oil, which may be traded several times and marked up by speculators, the price of pipeline oil is mostly fixed at the start of its journey to the refinery.
4. Keystone XL will stimulate the ailing U.S. economy. The Perryman Group estimates the pipeline will induce $20.9 in new business expenditures, add $9 billion to U.S. GDP, increase personal incomes by $6.
5 billion, generate $2.3 billion in retail sales, and create 118,935 person years of employment. 5. Keystone XL will enhance U.S. energy security. It will deliver up to 850,000 bpd of crude from a friendly, stable, democratic neighbor. Every barrel of oil we import from Canada is a barrel we don’t have to import from despotic, unfriendly, or volatile countries like Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, or Nigeria.
6. A win for Keystone XL is a defeat for the global warming movement. Green groups view Keystone as an opportunity to regain momentum and offset their losses after the death of cap-and-trade. If friends of affordable energy win this fight, which seems likely, the greenhouse lobby will take another hit to its prestige, morale, and influence.
7. Keystone XL strains relations between Obama and his environmentalist base. If Obama approves the pipeline, greenies will be less motivated to work for his re-election. If he disapproves, Republicans and moderate Democrats will hammer him for killing job creation and increasing pain at the pump. Either way, the prospects for new anti-energy legislation should be dimmer.
8. Keystone XL is bringing aging, New Lefties out of the woodwork, where they can misbehave and get themselves arrested.