On the recordJuly 26, 2011
The bottom line is the people whose jobs depend on their being right, and a company with billions of dollars at stake, all concluded that increases in price of gas will especially hit the Midwest as a result of this pipeline. These aren't just employees of TransCanada; these people are experts, legal experts who put this in an application. This is not a bogus argument. If that is a bogus argument, to my friend, then that information should be conveyed to the Government of Canada, because TransCanada's permit application to the Canadian Government for a pipeline included documents and testimony which said that Canadian oil companies could use the pipeline to increase America's fuel bill by $4 billion per year by limiting the supply of Canadian crude to Midwest refineries and rerouting it to gulf coast refineries. Stand up for the American consumer. I yield back the balance of my time.
