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?
Many states are working on the pipeline in areas where they don't need fed approval. It must've made good business sense because lot's of American companies are investing in, and building, the pipeline despite Obama nixing the presidential permits.

Furthermore, there is a tremendous backlog of oil that can be transported from various states, to the Gulf Coast, where it can be refined. Not all of the refined gasoline, or oil, is going overseas, though surely some of it will. But we can't use it all. Besides...that how business works. And obviously lots of people will be put to work, including many thousands of Americans.