Democrats Are Killing Jobs

[Bfgrn]

Energy companies have had a lot of high profile spills and sundry other disasters in recent years, they need to do more to prevent that kind of thing rather than just lawyering up and hiring lobbyists, maybe then it would not be so scary to let them put their leaky pipes in places that they have not fucked up yet.

The ultimate aim of petroleum pipelines is to move crude to port to sell on the world market, is the environmental risk worth helping energy companies that barely pay taxes in this country? For some reason helping Exxon get richer is job number one on republican's energy agenda.

If nothing else, "helping Exxon get richer" creates jobs. Why are you so dead-set against job creation? Afraid the Dumbocrats will lose their voter-base if people become independent?

Jobs Gained, Jobs Lost by the Construction of Keystone XL
A report by Cornell University global labor institute

Main Findings

The main points in this briefing paper can be summarized as follows:

» The industry’s US jobs claims are linked to a $7 billion KXL project budget. However, the budget for KXL that will have a bearing on US jobs figures is dramatically lower—only around $3 to $4 billion. A lower project budget means fewer jobs.

» The project will create no more than 2,500-4,650 temporary direct construction jobs for two years, according to TransCanada’s own data supplied to the State Department.

» The company’s claim that KXL will create 20,000 direct construction and manufacturing jobs in the U.S is not substantiated.

» There is strong evidence to suggest that a large portion of the primary material input for KXL—steel pipe—will not even be produced in the United States. A substantial amount of pipe has already been manufactured in advance of pipeline permit issuance.

» The industry’s claim that KXL will create 119,000 total jobs (direct, indirect, and induced) is based on a flawed and poorly documented study commissioned by TransCanada (The Perryman Group study). Perryman wrongly includes over $1 billion in spending and over 10,000 person-years of employment for a section of the Keystone project in Kansas and Oklahoma that is not part of KXL and has already been built.

» KXL will not be a major source of US jobs, nor will it play any substantial role at all in putting Americans back to work. Even if the Perryman figures were accurate, and all of the workers for the next phase of the project were hired immediately, the US seasonally adjusted unemployment rate would remain at 9.1%—exactly where it is now.

» KXL will divert Tar Sands oil now supplying Midwest refineries, so it can be sold at higher prices to the Gulf Coast and export markets. As a result, consumers in the Midwest could be paying 10 to 20 cents more per gallon for gasoline and diesel fuel. These additional costs (estimated to total $2–4 billion) will suppress other spending and will therefore cost jobs.

» Pipeline spills incur costs and therefore kill jobs. Clean-up operations and permanent pipeline spill damage will divert public and private funds away from productive economic activity. In 2010 US pipeline spills and explosions killed 22 people, released over 170,000 barrels of petroleum into the environment, and caused $1 billion dollars worth of damage in the United States.

» Rising carbon emissions and other pollutants from the heavy crude transported by Keystone XL will also incur increased health care costs. Emissions also increase both the risk and costs of further climate instability.

» By helping to lock in US dependence on fossil fuels, Keystone XL will impede progress toward green and sustainable economic renewal and will have a chilling effect on green investments and green jobs creation. The green economy has already generated 2.7 million jobs in the US and could generate many more.

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/globallaborinstitute/research/upload/GLI_KeystoneXL_012312_FIN.pdf

 

[LogikAndReazon]

Exxon is in the business of producing energy and maximizing the return for shareholders. Not social justice, welfare, or any other altruistic wants of the proletariat.

 

[LogikAndReazon]

We could just cut out the middle man and pay people to dump toxic shit in the rivers. At what point does the environment become a consideration with you fossil fuel whores?

At what point does homeless and hungry people become a consideration with you immature, idealistic whores?

Soooooooo many bleeding heart causes others need to be coerced into supporting. For the humanity !!!!

 

[frigidweirdo]

Soooooooo many bleeding heart causes others need to be coerced into supporting. For the humanity !!!!

Ah, just call it bleeding heart, pretend it's not worth your time. Hey, you get cheaper oil, and 1 million get killed. You probably think it's worth it.

 

[LogikAndReazon]

Thanks ,ill give to the. uses i believe in... Not what some schmuck of a liberal civ servant decides i should