The Texas Keystone Pipeline Boosts U.S. Energy Independence, Says Consumer Energy Alliance
The Consumer Energy Alliance is a non-profit organization that promotes lower energy costs for Americans through responsible energy policy.
All of us suffer as energy prices rise. The cost of energy is built into the cost of everything we buy that is not created locally. We pay for higher transportation costs, and higher raw materials costs. And we all have to pay extra for gas with every fill-up. Higher costs for gasoline are an invisible drag on our weak economy.
The Consumer Energy Alliance promotes all the different forms of energy production in Texas, which is part of the Consumer Energy Alliance’s South region. Most recently, the CEA has advocated for the Texas Keystone Pipeline project. The Keystone XL project would extend an existing pipeline from Canada down to refineries along Texas’ Gulf Coast. It would carry about 75% Canadian oil, and 25% American oil.
The Keystone Pipeline would help make the U.S. More energy independent, and would also help to decrease gas prices, according to industry experts.
Although the Consumer Energy Alliance promotes all different forms of American-produced energy, the fact is that our economy is dependent on oil and will be for some time. And Texas is an important part of that equation. About 25% of the nation’s oil is produced in the Gulf of Mexico, and Texas is still the #1 oil producing state in America.
You may be shocked to learn that Texas is also the nation’s #1 producer of wind energy. The world’s largest wind farm, The Roscoe Wind Complex, located in West Texas, started producing electricity in April of 2010. The Roscoe Wind Complex extends over 100,000 acres of farmland, and the 627 wind turbines in the complex produce over 780 megawatts of electricity. That is enough to run 230,000 homes.
Although the Lone Star state is #1 in oil production, Texas is also a big source of biodiesel. In fact, Texas can produce 460 million gallons of biodiesel fuel per year, by far the most of CEA-South’s five states (Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana). Biodiesel is a non-petroleum-based, alternative fuel, produced from from fats or oils such as soybean oil. A clean-burning fuel, Biodiesel can be used in diesel engines with little or no modifications.
The State of Texas is of American energy production. As the law of supply and demand states, the higher the supply of a commodity like energy, the lower the costs. We should promote the responsible development of all the different energy sources that are found in Texas.
The Consumer Energy Alliance promotes all different forms of American-produced energy, the fact is that our economy is dependent on oil and will be for some time. The Consumer Energy Alliance promotes all the different forms of energy production in Texas.
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