Our country’s dependence on gasoline has significantly increased as a result of the increase in …show more content…
Although the pipeline’s construction would create many job opportunities, the majority of them would only be temporary. As stated previously, the Keystone XL project will provide for approximately 42,000 temporary jobs. However, after the expected 2 years of construction, the pipeline is predicted to only support 35 permanent jobs, which is minuscule compared to the amount of temporary jobs. As the construction of the pipeline will contribute approximately 3.4 billion dollars to the United States economy, our country will still have spent much more. The Keystone XL pipeline have increased it’s cost by almost fifty percent. TransCanada says the cost of the pipeline has increased to 8 million dollars, which is significantly more money spent to create the pipeline than it gives to the economy