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Marzupialis

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 01:13 PM Apr 2012

How Keystone Pipeline will lower gas prices [View all]

Let's pretend the pipeline is never built and gas prices increase to $5.00.
The price of gas would be lowered to $4.98 cents if the pipeline IS built, according to independent analyst group Moody's. That would translate in 28 cents savings per tank-fill in my car.

If I fill it up twice a week, I'll save 56 cents a week. In a month, that's a little over 2 dollars.

"Construction of the pipeline would lower the price of gas by 1.6 cents per gallon, according to an independent analysis by Moody's. In a visit to Oklahoma last week, "

Republicans won't tell you this, because people would laugh at them.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-03-29/ad-oil-gas-prices-obama/53867308/1

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