Will Dems Urge Obama to Support American Keystone Jobs or Send Them to China?
Democrats Have 47 Days to Approve or Reject the Keystone XL Pipeline’s Potential 130,000 Associated Jobs as Chinese Companies Move In
Washington — If Pennsylvania Democrat Jason Altmire’s Democrat leaders reject the widely-popular Keystone XL pipeline project in the next 47 days, American workers’ loss will only be the Chinese government’s gain. Chinese companies, like the state-run Sinopec Corporation, are heavily investing in Canadian energy resources while President Obama struggles under increasing pressure from radical anti-energy activists to kill the Keystone XL pipeline and its estimated 130,000 associated jobs in America. Given the Democrat in-fighting, Altmire has an obligation to stand up for job-creation by urging President Obama to support the shovel-ready Keystone XL pipeline project.
“Jason Altmire and his fellow Democrats have a simple choice to either give the okay for an estimated 130,000 jobs for Americans associated with the Keystone XL pipeline project or bend to pressure from radical anti-energy activists and let the waiting Chinese companies take those jobs overseas,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay. “Altmire’s silence is helping President Obama provide political payback to his party’s activist base while punishing American workers looking for job creation.”
Chinese companies are heavily investing in developing North American energy projects while President Obama waffles on the Keystone XL project and the 130,000 estimated associated jobs:
If President Obama rejects the Keystone XL pipeline under pressure from the Democrats’ activist base, those jobs and energy will simply be lost to countries like China instead:
“That has particularly been the case after the U.S. State Department late last year delayed a decision on a pipeline proposed to carry oil from Alberta to the U.S. Gulf Coast.
“The government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said it would actively market its oil to Asian buyers, including China. The Canadian government has said it backs the construction of another pipeline running from Alberta to the Pacific, where oil could be loaded onto tankers bound for Asia.”
(Edward Welsch, “PetroChina Buys Oil-Sands Project,” The Wall Street Journal, 1/4/12)This is yet another instance where Jason Altmire and his fellow Democrats have to choose between job-creation and appeasing their activist base that has no interest in economic growth. Altmire can either speak up for jobs and North American energy or let the increasingly radical wing of the Democrat party destroy American jobs and prevent economic recovery.
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