Do we need pipelines or playgrounds?

Is it more important to build an oil pipeline from Canada to the gulf? Supposedly creating jobs and mostly benefiting the oil companies and its shareholders? Or build roads, bridges, and repair run ways, build high-speed rail, also creating good jobs, and then greatly benefiting many parts of America.

Do we really want a pipeline cutting down through Middle America threatening open land and water resources or, build infrastructure that is very much needed to improve our quality of living. Do we need better roads or wealthier oil companies? It’s as simple as that.

Either one will provide needed jobs. But both have different outcomes. One serving the shareholders of oil companies and the other serving the general American population. Which do we want? A safer environment or a high-pressured intrusive oil pipeline cutting through our middle states? A pipe that Possibly could burst and dump heavy clay filled oil all over the northern and southern Plaines. Creating an environmental hazard similar to the BP oil spill in the gulf. Is this what we want?

I’ll take smooth roads and safe bridges over oil pipelines any day. Think about it. Oil that goes on the global market or infrastructure that stays in America?