NotMe wrote:

These is not that much 'excess capacity' in the USA. The oil that XL
will bring to the gulf coast is intended to be sold (if contracts are
no already in place) as export which will reduce the available
refinery capacity for those in the good old USA. This equates to an
increase fuel cost.

I'm in Texas and keep up with this sort of thing. Within 200 miles of
Houston, we have about 9% excess refining capacity. Nine percent is a HUGE
number. At full capacity, Texas' 27 refineries can refine about five million
barrels per day. About 10% of that is 500,000 bbls. The XL pipeline, can
supply about 435,000 to 591,000 bbl/day.


BTW the folk who operate the XL pipe line have a very bad reputation
for safety and have had something on the order of 13 'incidents' in
the first year of recently new pipe lines that they have build.

So what? You can't build a house without making sawdust.