Keystone pipeline permit is denied by Obama administration

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96. There are refineries all over the United States...

that's true. But almost half of all US refining capacity is in just two states, Louisiana and Texas. Sixty-percent of the US total gasoline refining capacity is in these two states, as well as the majority of US capacity for diesel fuel, jet fuel, and kerosene. (all of these figures are from the US Energy Information Administration's Petroleum Refineries Capacity Report for 2011.)

I lived and worked along the Gulf Coast for a lot of my life, including at the large Chevron Pascagoula, MS refinery. You may call it a "fallacy" if you wish, but the fact is that the size, and concentration of refineries along the US Gulf Coast is unmatched anywhere else in the world, with the possible exception of Saudi Arabia.

I'm thrilled the Obama administration cancelled the pipeline. The jobs and economic impact figures reported by the project's backers were wildly inflated, as were many other of their claims.

Boehner and the Republicans overplayed their hand and I'm happy the president and his administration called them on it. The 2-month deadline was a ridiculously short time to fully evaluate a thousand-mile pipeline crossing an international border and seven states as well.