Keep those jobs coming. That would make a difference. The pipeline would not have made a serious impact on those numbers and on the american peoples prospects for the future. Second, the pipeline would not lower gas prices for american consumers. In fact, gas prices have already been falling, steadily. The National Average gas price is down to down about 77 cents over a year ago. Its down a dollar over two years ago. Its down 1. 27 over three years ago. Today, in 41 states, drivers can find at least one gas station selling gas for less than 2 bucks a gallon. While our politics have been consumed by a debate over whether or not this pipeline would create jobs and lower gas prices, weve gone ahead and created more jobs and lower gas prices. Third, shipping dirtier crude oil into our country would not increase Americas Energy security. What has increased Americas Energy security is our strategy over the past several years to reduce our reliance on dirty fossil fuels from unstable parts of