HitRed wrote:"The pipeline would raise gas prices across the Midwest -- hurting both consumers and businesses. Ironically, the pipeline could actually destroy more jobs than it generates."
Ironically, gas prices are HIGHER now across the Midwest -- hurting both consumers and businesses.
https://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=mcaf ... oil+prices
Which, as I explained last week, has less to do with supply and is more to do with the sudden increase in demand as the pandemic ends and people are taking trips that they put off for two years. The highway is a nightmare right now -- traffic levels are fully up to pre-pandemic levels. But not only are people taking more trips than before, they're taking longer trips. I know people who haven't left town in years, and have suddenly taken it into their head to go visit relatives on the East Coast, just because they suddenly can.
If gas prices went up to the point of actually discouraging people from traveling, that would be good for the environment, at least. But we're a long, long way from that point. Right now the gas prices are just enough to make people bellyache, without actually making them change their behaviour in any way.