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 fossil fuels from unstable parts of the world. Three years ago, i set a goal to cut our oil imports in half by 2020. Between producing more oil here at home and using less oil throughout our economy, we met that goal last year. Five years