Posted on 07/30/2013 2:07:55 PM PDT by topher
President Obama doubled down Tuesday on his claim that the Keystone XL oil pipeline would create just a handful of jobs, despite being hammered by Republicans and fact-checkers alike for the claim.
The president addressed Keystone during a speech in Chattanooga, Tenn., as he challenged Republicans to come up with new jobs proposals.
"They keep on talking about this -- an oil pipeline coming down from Canada that's estimated to create about 50 permanent jobs. That's not a jobs plan," Obama said.
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When we all have lower energy prices, the leftover money is spent on say travel, entertainment, investment etc. That’s where the jobs are.
I knew that you have some facts to back up what you said (number of stations, etc).
Thanks...
The press won’t challenge him so he can say anything he wants. In fact, they’ll repeat it and the idiot liberals will believe it.
that is 50 more jobs than sylendra created.
To this squatter, his vacations are bigger “jobs plans”.
Someone needs to confront this B*S**** immediately when he spews these things...
What’s really weird, is that he is doing it for some of the most influential oil business constituents in some states (their associates pretending to be greenies, as so many in other lines of business do). They use the government against potential competition and have been doing so for decades. No competition allowed. Thing is, we’re going to need all of the oil we can get into the USA for refining in the future.
Hey, obie, what about the “reduce dependence on foreign (read Middle East) oil” lie you like to tell?
(1) Shell Oil Company
(2) British Petroleum
I believe the Queen has the controlling interest in Shell Oil Company... Ironically, not as big a stake in British Petroleum...
I could be low by half. I was trying to make a guess at bare minimum added on to an existing system. But most of this is separated by many miles from the other line.
No. No one has controlling interest. 5% maybe up to 7% now is the largest single block of ownership.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/09/07/uk-shell-qatar-idUKBRE88610H20120907
“He actually wants the country to go green or go belly up”
Those two are not mutually exclusive. In fact, going green will lead to going belly up if it were even really possible to go green.
Is there a source for that list that includes a summary of each one?
My first number is way too low after thinking more about it. I was thinking of a normal day shift only crew. I think every station would have 2 people 24/7 as a minimum operations and response crew. Add two more for station maintenance and two more for pipeline maintenance between each station and you have the hours for 216 people as a bare minimum. Over the couple decades following construction of the pipeline I think you would average at least twice that for support, upgrades, etc. I’ve seen a lot of work done over the years on existing stations. I’ve been one of them many times.
So on the low end, at least 500 people after construction is done, on average. That doesn’t include all the non-direct hires like buying supplies, repair parts, etc. You cannot run hundreds of thousands of hp in pumps non-stop and think they and the associated equipment doesn’t need operations and maintenance for the next two decades.
Here is the link. I apologize for not including it in my original post.
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/10/18/president-obamas-taxpayer-backed-green-energy-failures/
Perfect, thanks!
Estimates like the 250,000 usually come from the "indirect effects" idea that for each person who is employed in a new job (as opposed to transferring from one job to another), the money they inject into local economies helps create and/or sustain X number of other jobs (doctors, teachers, retail workers, restaurant workers, etc.) - it's hard to objectively measure such effects, of course.
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