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No Keystone XL means cheaper Canadian crude- here's proof!

GasBuddy Blog -- An article by a Londer Finance newspaper spells out what I've been trying to let our GasBuddy family know- that I believe rejection of the Keystone pipeline will allow Canadian oil prices to remain at huge discounts to other global crude oils.

Now the proof is here in the pudding according to the LSE:

"Canadian heavy crude differentials began to slide two days ago, falling from the low $20s a barrel under benchmark West Texas Intermediate to as much as $32 a barrel under WTI on Friday."

See? The above paragraph is showing that the price of Canadian crude oil is falling- even faster than changes in other types of higher quality crude oil!

The same story goes on to say "Traders of Canadian crude had...


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Submitted Feb 03, 2012 By: PD
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TempleAlumni
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Message Posted: Feb 6, 2012 4:28:08 AM

THIS PIPELINE NEEDS TO BE RE-ROUTED FROM TEXAS TO TEXAS...YES I SAID FROM TEXAS TO TEXAS OR AN OF OUR 50 STATES...WE ARE ONE OF THE BIGGEST EXPORTERS OF OIL, YET, WE HAVE "LITTLE TO NONE IN OUR RESERVES"? AS EVERYTHING ELSE IN THIS WORLD IT ALL COMES DOWN TO MAKING $$$-AND FORGET GAS FOR A SECOND-WE STILL HAVE PEOPLE IN OUR OWN COUNTRY WHO ARE STARVING...SAD, SAD...SAD!!!
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rjhenn
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 9:09:05 PM

tomok - "These are US natural resources that belong to the citizens of this country and are to be used by those same citizens!"

How is Canadian crude "US natural resources"?
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KAR120CSII
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 2:38:06 PM

Good article.
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tomok
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Message Posted: Feb 5, 2012 3:18:18 AM

No Keystone XL means cheaper Canadian crude? Maybe, Maybe Not!
If Big oil and refineries would NOT export fuel and natural gas to other countries for additional profit, the price of fuel at the pump would be much lower. These are US natural resources that belong to the citizens of this country and are to be used by those same citizens! Barry will support natural gas and oil production to pay for his ‘spending gone wild’ addiction. Speculators, manipulators and the banks continue to unfairly and unjustly make the driving public pay higher prices at the pump.
The price of fuel at the pump is too high!
12/22/2012!
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N5EXY
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Message Posted: Feb 4, 2012 9:55:35 AM

275 days until the election.
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bigmoo63
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Message Posted: Feb 4, 2012 9:09:24 AM

Okay, both sides of the story. Probably not more than half truths in either. If its got anything to do with oil and the government, you can bet the best interests of the people are secondary. The corporations pulling the strings of the political puppets are getting the last word. And I dont thing anything will make the crude cheaper. Why should it be? They have a willing buyer across the globe. You scream about business. Here it is, and it goes against us. And then its wrong. Wake up people...just because we snap our fingers, people arent giving us our way anymore. Thats just a fact. This country has more enemies than allies. And we did it to ourselves.
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rbrk02
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Message Posted: Feb 4, 2012 8:53:31 AM

rx7racerca, your post from Feb 3, 2012 9:58:32 PM is absolutely spot on. Great comment.

judgemobile, great comment also. Let's hope you are right!

[Edited by: rbrk02 at 2/4/2012 8:54:37 AM EST]
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jrschl
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Message Posted: Feb 4, 2012 1:06:14 AM

How about we switch to Natural Gas and forget about the oil trade. This talk and no action is getting old...quick.
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kkimes
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Message Posted: Feb 4, 2012 12:52:14 AM

Congratulations! Just keep saying NO until everyone understands it.
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dpt
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Message Posted: Feb 4, 2012 12:50:55 AM

Yeah. If somebody got a job for five years, they counted it as job-years and said it was five jobs.
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rjhenn
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Message Posted: Feb 4, 2012 12:19:08 AM

judgemobile - "perhaps the 20,000 or more people who will now NOT get jobs because the pipeline is not being built--they (and their families and friends) will express their rage to O'Bummer at the polls in November."

Except that most of those 20,000 jobs were never anything but hot air, intended to blow Congress into supporting higher gas prices for the US.
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tedjm1
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Who are you supposed to believe? No one has been forward with their messages. They can 'lie' like champs and change results by skewing the data they have available.
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jkpsr
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Message Posted: Feb 4, 2012 12:14:06 AM

Since it seems to only be in their interest, let them build one in their own country.
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judgemobile
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Message Posted: Feb 4, 2012 12:11:00 AM

perhaps the 20,000 or more people who will now NOT get jobs because the pipeline is not being built--they (and their families and friends) will express their rage to O'Bummer at the polls in November.
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rawdog1313
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Message Posted: Feb 4, 2012 12:10:29 AM

The pipeline will not make prices lower here...Somebody has been watching and listening to way too much Faux News......
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pse91
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Message Posted: Feb 4, 2012 12:10:27 AM

It seems like some one is on drugs. Cheap oil price in Canada. That has not translated at the pumps. The pumps in Canada seem to be all over the map.
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Message Posted: Feb 4, 2012 12:09:28 AM

still taking but no action
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Message Posted: Feb 4, 2012 12:09:20 AM

Has some interests under the hat...
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LostToo
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Message Posted: Feb 4, 2012 12:08:59 AM

WHAT!?!?!?! HAS PUDDING GOT TO DO WITH IT???????? mmmmmmmmmm home made chocolate pudding, yummmmmy. Banana pudding is great too.... with the vanilla wafers mmmmmmmmmmmm.
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whatif81
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Message Posted: Feb 4, 2012 12:08:38 AM

I doubt if the pipeline goes through that it will bring gas prices down. Oil companies use just about any excuse to bring up gas prices. Like Iran's threat.
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Message Posted: Feb 4, 2012 12:07:52 AM

ok
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jrsva
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Message Posted: Feb 4, 2012 12:06:58 AM

“Nice article but since I don't live in Canada I'd prefer we do the pipeline so we can have lower prices here.”

Hey Beaver, it would be good if you had actually read the article before commenting.
The main point made is that building the pipeline would result in higher prices in the US.
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Ahking
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Message Posted: Feb 4, 2012 12:05:17 AM

thanks for the info.
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tampacrvdriver
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Message Posted: Feb 4, 2012 12:01:49 AM

I'm skeptical.
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runningmp
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Message Posted: Feb 4, 2012 12:01:11 AM

us4usa, your price only went up 10 cents....ours went up 15 cents and we have four refineries in our city.
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DrCashFlow
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Message Posted: Feb 3, 2012 11:59:46 PM

Maybe
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Road-Runner
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Message Posted: Feb 3, 2012 11:57:56 PM

No surprise. The real question is: Will it translate into cheaper prices at the pump for Canadian and U.S. consumers???
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DustyHorse
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Message Posted: Feb 3, 2012 11:56:26 PM

Seems hard to believe.
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vibdata
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Message Posted: Feb 3, 2012 11:55:16 PM

Fine. Keep the prices low. Keep the oil at home. The US would be well advised to do that as well.
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Beaveronparade
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Message Posted: Feb 3, 2012 11:50:42 PM

Nice article but since I don't live in Canada I'd prefer we do the pipeline so we can have lower prices here. : )
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SparkieMi
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Message Posted: Feb 3, 2012 11:49:23 PM

Very good post Bonnie24TX, especially starting with the third sentence..
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bif65
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Message Posted: Feb 3, 2012 11:49:16 PM

ok
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mstearno
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Message Posted: Feb 3, 2012 11:46:28 PM

no it does not lower our prices
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dennis58
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Message Posted: Feb 3, 2012 11:39:48 PM

does it lower our gas prices?
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Martinman
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Message Posted: Feb 3, 2012 11:37:49 PM

"... don't higher oil prices hurt the economy and lead to job losses? Chew on that one."

.

Which was the exact same conclusion that Cornell University reached in it's study on the Keystone XL pipeline.

The study's authors even went on to state, that the 10- to 20- cent per gallon increase motorists would see in the central U.S., would in one-year, offset all of the job-gains for the entire project.

As I have stated here in the past, Harper is trying to play the U.S. for Patsies.
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Message Posted: Feb 3, 2012 11:36:11 PM

greed...
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Message Posted: Feb 3, 2012 11:35:24 PM

Methinx that with a little more aggressive marketing and arranging the proper shipping via Kitimat or anywhere else on Canada's west coast, we Canadians shouldn't have to "give away" our oil at deep discount prices.
As it is, most Canadians pay at least a dollar more per gallon at the pumps than our neighbours to the south.

I'm all for helping out a neighbour. Don't get me wrong. But until you 'Murikens start paying real world prices, you're never going to learn the real meaning of the word "conserve."

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Message Posted: Feb 3, 2012 11:31:37 PM

To nurdco - refineries in the area will have the same effect as building the pipeline, market for the oil
If you can't get the oil to market what good does a low price do
Increase supply and the price drops, without the pipeline the supply cannot get to refiners, therefore supply does not exist to the markets
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tidalwave3
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Message Posted: Feb 3, 2012 11:30:54 PM

yEA IT'S bUSH'S FAULT
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It's bush's fault..not sure how but it is.
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Message Posted: Feb 3, 2012 11:26:10 PM

Ya NEED a Midwest nothern refinery NOT a pipeline to TX..
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Message Posted: Feb 3, 2012 11:19:31 PM

people want away from middle east oil but block getting oil from places much closer

PICK ONE PEOPLE

either accept giving money to the middle east where the terrorist camps is or stop blocking ways to get oil from other places much friendlier to us
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Message Posted: Feb 3, 2012 11:15:41 PM

GREED!
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Message Posted: Feb 3, 2012 11:14:19 PM

we will have to wait and se
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Why isn't there a new pipeline to the U.S.? Who's stopping it? God knows we need help. We are most always there for everyone else, where are America's friends when we are in trouble? I'm not too proud to ask for something that will benefit our country, but not to the extent that it will cause higher taxes to pay them off. If all the countries paid us back for all they owe us, perhaps we could get out of debt and help others more and ourselves.
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We shall see.
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Oil prices down $4, gas prices up 10 cents this week, GREED one of the seven sins???
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Wait till the start selling to China and see how high the price will go. It is dropping now because they have no way to transport it so it can be sold.
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Wow what a difference
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Message Posted: Feb 3, 2012 10:51:20 PM

It will be shipped via Kitimat. Harper has all but said it will be approved .
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