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President Obama recently got a look at what his failed energy policies are doing to America and I hope he fully appreciates that he does have the power to change things for the better. His recent tour of Cushing, Oklahoma, while a trip planned with political considerations first and jobs other than his own a distant second, should have given him a clear perspective of how important the Keystone XL Pipeline is to America.
 
Cushing, Oklahoma, which proudly proclaims itself the Pipeline Crossroads of The World, is sitting on a glut of oil because it lacks the pipelines to move it to the refineries. The town’s oil tank farm can store about 46 million barrels of oil; that’s enough oil to fill the tanks fully of half the cars on the road in the U.S. It’s ironic that Cushing can fill half the cars since President Obama is promising to support only half of the Keystone pipeline.

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