Persuasive Essay On Keystone Pipeline

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President Obama’s decision to reject keystone Pipeline ignores a body of environmental facts, harms energy security and is detrimental to our economic wellbeing. Keystone pipeline has become a political pandering at the expense of our nation’s energy security. This subject has been a big controversy in the US for the past couple of years.

Keystone pipeline is an oil pipeline that will run from Hardisty, Alberta to the gulf coast of Texas. (energycommerce, upton). At least 42,000 jobs would have been created in the construction of this pipeline. In addition It will bring in 830,000 barrels of oil a day cutting in half the dependency on Middle East and other foreign crude oil. (energycommerce,Upton). Finally after 7 years the united states government has decided to reject keystone pipeline.Though opponents say keystone pipeline is harmful to the environment, it should have been approved because, the construction would have boosted the economy, and improved relations with Canada reducing reliance on unstable Middle Eastern countries.

Construction of keystone pipeline would have boosted the economy with the infusion of about 3.5

billion dollars. Around 42,000 people would have been employed with direct and indirect jobs. With one of Obama’s main goals being to lower the unemployment rate and give people jobs, it is fatuous of him not to take advantage of this opportunity. As a result keystone pipeline XL the United States would have benefited from a permanent increase in tax revenues. These benifits could have helped the US recover from all the debt we have or at least point us in the right direction. Effects of Keystone pipeline consist of, refining companies being able to purchase and transport oil more efficiently, cost effectively and with a constant supply, and if the oil is coming from Canada we will not have to worry about getting into conflicts with unstable foreign countries and worry about them raising prices to hurt us.
Another reason we should have approved keystone pipeline is that we would be relying on our closest ally (wallstreetdaily, Goldberg), reducing reliance on middle-eastern countries. (CNN, Hoeven) It would only be helping the US and Canada. Why would anyone in their right mind want to help the middle-eastern countries and support what they have been doing and what they are capable of doing? In the very likely event that the countries we purchase oil from become indignant with us, we all of the sudden have no oil, they have control over us which could someday be devastating. When we decided to reject Canada’s oil, what does that tell them? It tells them that we are too selfish and stubborn to put the best interest of the US economy, all of the oil companies that would be benefiting from it, and Canada and all the benefits they would be receiving from it before the best interest of not even Obama himself but just the people he is choosing to make happy by rejecting the offer, selfishly based on the fact that he will get a few more votes. We are stabbing our closest allies in the back for no good reason.
The best argument opponents against the keystone pipeline would support is that keystone is bad for the environment.(CNN, Hoeven) First reason this argument is fallacious is because, oil that the United States would be receiving from Canada is going to be produced regardless (wallstreetdaily, Goldberg), whether or not the US is going to use it. If the oil isn’t coming straight out of the ground being transported to us, where do they think it’s going? The oil is going somewhere else like china or japan, somewhere with significantly less air pollution safe guards on their factories than what we have in the United States, and how do they think the oil is going to get over to those countries? It is going to be put on a truck. Its highly unlikly the truck is electric, actually it is quite opposite putting tons of pollution into the air daily by transporting the oil to the cargo ships where it will be shipped over to the other side of the world. These ships have to move somehow so they too are going to be using tons and tons of gasoline daily polluting the oceans. If they think animals won’t be killed by this process, think again. Oh and Don’t worry, the ships are better then the Titanic They got it right this time so they aren’t going to sink, We would all like to believe that but unfortunately they aren’t going to get across the ocean as smoothly as the Israelites crossed the red sea. There are going to be spills. These spills will be way more significant in damage than any prospective leak they thought would come from the pipeline. Effects of the transportation process alone will cause more pollution in one day then the transportation of the oil in a pipeline will cause in months. (energycommerce, Upton) Not to mention the way the refineries will process the oil.
Even though people think keystone pipeline is a bad thing and will harm the environment, it really only helps the United States economy and our relations with Canada and distances us from the Middle East and their scandalous dealings.

When you look at the facts of the opponents against keystone pipeline out of context, yes they do look bad, the oil coming from Canada is more dirty and unclean then other oil sources and yes there will be pollution, but that’s what people get caught up on. If they were to understand that whether or not keystone pipeline is developed, the oil will still be produced! Unfortunately, it will be more harmful than if we were to take advantage of the pipeline and send it to the gulf of Texas where is can be refined as safely as possible, helping our economy and stabilizing the

US.