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"Keystone Pipeline Now"

Do you thing the Middle East is going to be a peaceful place anytime soon? With all this unrest do you thing the price of oil is going to drop anytime soon? The price of gas is about $4.00 per gallon, the cost of heating oil and natural gas not going down anytime soon. We may not be totally dependent on oil from other counties, but we are totally depending on the price of the cost of oil and much of which is dictated by others. 

For three years our President has nixed the building of the Keystone pipeline for only political reasons, which means he is playing with our lives for political reasons. How about the 20,000 to 30,000 jobs that might be created? Doesn’t that count either. How much money would that bring into the economy? 

It is also time to allow drilling for oil and gas in Federally owned land, so that we won’t be dependent on any country for oil and gas and we can become a seller rather than a buyer, just like Russia has become.  How about the thousands of jobs that would create? Doesn’t that matter either Mr. President? 

All of these decisions are being made for political reasons, instead of making the lives of our Americans that much better, your actions do just the opposite, which is truly a crime.   

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