Which is to entirely miss the point about jobs and projects--the number of jobs created by a project is a cost of that project, not a benefit of it. That is, we should hope that the people saying Keystone XL will produce 35 jobs are correct, not the people touting 20 and 30 thousand. But it is still true that we must consider those construction jobs to be a cost, not a benefit, of the pipeline project. If we've 35, or 28,000, jobs on the pipeline then that's 35, or 28,000, people not doing something else. That is, all this chest beating about how many jobs Keystone XL will create is entirely the wrong way around.

Source: Forbes March 25, 2017 14:15 UTC