Canadian Oil

Canada is the largest source of oil imports to the United States, providing nearly 2 million barrels of oil per day. The proposed Keystone XL pipeline would increase oil imports from our neighbor and ally by more than 700,000 barrels per day.

The U.S. State Department and President Obama decided in late 2011 to delay the Keystone XL pipeline, a shovel-ready project that had the potential to support close to 20,000 jobs immediately and 85,000 U.S. jobs cumulatively by 2020, and to inject billions of dollars into the U.S. economy. This decision was made even though the Keystone XL pipeline proposal has been reviewed intensively by federal agencies and has been shown to be safe, environmentally sound and in America’s national interest.

The proposed pipeline — a nearly 1,700-mile expansion of the Keystone pipeline, would link oil sands from Alberta in Canada to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast.

AFPM will continue to support construction of the Keystone XL pipeline as a critically important source of energy and jobs that could fuel our economic growth and increase our national security. Canada provides a stable, steady and reliable source of oil to the United States. This oil will be even more important in the future as the U.S. economy begins to recover and our energy demands increase.

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