Wednesday's letters: Buy refineries and upgraders, not pipelines

How many bitumen oil refineries, or upgraders needed to refine heavy oil in existing refineries, could have been built for the $4.5 billion the federal government is going to spend on buying Kinder Morgan’s pipeline and expansion?
Wouldn’t it make more sense to refine the oil in Canada, where much higher value, long-term jobs, and taxes would be extracted? Once again, good jobs being exported by shipping the raw product out of country.
R.C. Rolf, Edmonton
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