Obama: Keystone Jobs ?A Blip?, Pipeline ?Might Actually Cause Some Gas Prices In The Midwest To Go Up?

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Source: thinkprogress.org --- Sunday, July 28, 2013
In his big June climate speech , president Obama said he would approve the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline only if it ?does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution.? In an interview with The New York Times this week, Obama repeated that point: ?I?m going to evaluate this based on whether or not this is going to significantly contribute to carbon in our atmosphere.? As Climate Progress and many others have explained, that criterion should be fatal to Keystone. Equally important, the president made clear to the Times that the economic arguments for the pipeline had been wildly overhyped: OBAMA: Republicans have said that this would be a big Jobs generator. There is no evidence that that?s true. And my hope would be that any reporter who is looking at the facts would take the time to confirm that 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 [chuckles] Jobs in a economy of 150 million working people. NYT: Yet there are a number of unions who want you to approve this. MR. OBAMA: Well, look, they might like to see 2,000 Jobs initially. But that is a blip relative to the need . So what we also know is, is that that oil is going to be piped down to the Gulf to be sold on the world oil markets, so it does not bring down gas prices here in the United State ...

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