Quote Originally Posted by Rucker61 View Post
If business decisions dictated, then not so wrong. Oil and gasoline are commodities. We the people have nothing to say where the oil goes. We don't even have a say in where the workers to build the pipeline come from, if the contracts let allow for foreign (Canadian and Mexican, for example) workers. It's a Canadian company - why wouldn't they hire their own?
Speculative. One of the stipulations put onto Transcanada plan/contract is it is to hire local workers. The US State Department, which is siding w/ the White House (obviously) and must approve the multinational contract, has lowered its estimate to 5000 local jobs from 20000 local jobs previously estimated (read: political). So even if you use this low low end estimate, it still is 5000 more jobs locally. The indirect impact of 700000 barrels of Canadian oil is thousands more jobs at the US refineries as US gas production will increase by 5%.