I know that! The pipeline was for quicker and more stable delivery to the Gulf Coast refineries who expanded their refining capacity so we could export more finished product! They expanded the refineries when the Keystone pipeline was approved and fracking was being used. They now run not even close to full capacity and Canada has filled a suit for billions that they spent on the pipeline so derailments of trains filled with oil would stop burning small Canadian towns.A pipeline is a means of transport....not a refinery. It replaced the use of trucks or trains.
And we import between 12 and 26 million barrels of oil from Russia every month. We took 17.8 million barrels in November.