By Susan Duclos
Both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives have passed measures in support of the Keystone XL Pipeline, which would transport oil from Canada’s oil sands region through the Midwest to refineries in Texas and would accommodate up to 830,000 barrels of oil per day as well as create some 179,000 jobs on American soil.
Recently the State Department issued yet another report finding the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline would not pose any significant environmental effect.
The 2,000+ page report includes volumes 1-4 as well as the executive summary.
Read the KeystoneXL Pipeline Review Executive Summary
Pew Research just found that 66 percent of Americans favor building the pipeline with just 23 percent opposed.
Republicans (82%), Conservative Republicans (83%), and moderate/liberal Republicans (81%), Independents (70%), Democrats (54%) and moderate/conservative Democrats (60%), all have majorities in favor of building the Keystone XL Pipeline.
The only segment of the Democrat Party that does not have a majority in favor of Keystone, are the liberals, who show 42 percent in favor and 48 percent opposed.
The chart below shows the breakdown:
Men and women, all age groups at all levels of education, all have majority level support for Keystone.
Barack Obama's continues to stall the decision to move the project forward, and is still going against the majority of Americans in implementing directives that would continue to block the pipeline.
Obama's obstruction is the only thing preventing Keystone from being built.
