The current average cost to ship oil by rail from Alberta to Texas is $14 to $18 per barrel. The cost via pipeline would be approx. $3 per barrel. More general info... http://www.aopl.org/pipeline-basics/about-pipelines/ "The cost to transport crude oil or petroleum products by pipeline is a fraction of the cost of other modes of transportation. The cost to ship crude oil by rail is generally $10 to $15 per barrel versus under $5 per barrel by pipeline."
Oh, well that is okay. The oil industry may turn its attention to the 3 trillion barrels of oil in the Green River Formation at a cost of $20 a barrel for the oil located in the oil sands in that area. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/could-technology-innovation-oil-industry-161900906.html
PRESIDENT OBAMA’S rejection of the proposed Keystone XLpipeline last week had the ring of a great victory for the environment. But even as he declared the United States a “global leader” in the transition to cleaner energy, he revealed a challenge that neither he nor his administration has confronted: “If we’re going to prevent large parts of this earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes,” the president said, “we’re going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground, rather than burn them and release more dangerous pollution into the sky.” http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/11/o...ight-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region
^ It was a great political victory, at the expense of the environment. Typical of leftist policy. Find or fabricate a problem, implement a policy that makes it worse and then continue to complain about it. Viola, it's 24/7 campaign season, which I will admit, the democrats have perfected.
As with everything else Odumbo has done.... he weighs the alternatives then chooses the one which harms America the most. And neither the Congress nor the SCOTUS exercises their powers to stop him.