Upton Talks Keystone Pipeline

Enbridge workers are expected today to restart a pipeline that had leaked over a thousand barrels of crude onto a field in Wisconsin last month. The pipe that funnels through about 318 thousand barrels per day was shut off 11 days ago when the leak was discovered, and federal investigators put the line through a series of tests after it had been repaired. Coupled with refinery problems in Indiana and elsewhere, the leak led to a shortage of refined petroleum, which caused fuel prices to jump from around $3.40 to nearly $4.00. As a key reason for the latest gas price spike across the Great Lakes region apparently is resolved, the calls for a controversial oil pipeline from Canada grow. Fred Upton, Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, claimed that, in a �unscientific� survey of around 65 hundred constituents in a �tele-town hall� meeting, more than 90 percent said that the Keystone pipeline that would bring crude oil from Canada into the US should be built and opened.

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Gas prices are already gradually falling back as the Enbridge pipe and the refinery issues are resolved.