The Keystone pipeline

 The Keystone pipeline

The Keystone pipeline

The Keystone pipeline upon completion would carry more than 800,000 barrels or 33.6 million gallons of oil through the pipeline per day with no harmful emissions.

A barrel of oil is 42 gallons, not to be confused with a drum which is 55 gallons.

Because a gallon of oil weighs between 7.5 and 7.8 lbs. per gallon, most trucks can’t carry but up to 130 barrels of oil at a time without violating department of transportation laws of 80,000 lbs. on our roadways. That's truck and cargo weight combined.

It would take 6,154 more trucks going just from Canada to the Gulf Coast for that same oil and that's every single day. A rail car holds approximately 30,000 gallons or 700 barrels.

It would take trains every day pulling 1,143 more rail cars per day just pulling the oil from that pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast.

Trains and trucks emitting more emissions and burning more fuel that would be eliminated by the pipeline.

So when they tell you this is about the environment, it is not; that would be a lie.