Our great country has an opportunity to complete a project that would provide billions of dollars in economic activity, create thousands of high-paying manufacturing and construction jobs and at the same time take a significant step towards providing for greater U.S. energy security and independence. No I’m not talking about a massive government spending campaign designed to take money from one group of taxpayers and give it to another, instead I’m talking about a private sector project that once approved, has the potential to add billions of dollars to America’s gross domestic product and deliver millions more in revenue to our government.

The project known as the Keystone Gulf Coast Expansion Pipeline Project will bring more than a million barrels a day of Canadian oil to U.S. refineries.

TOPEKA, KS - The free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFPF) is bringing its nationwide Running on Empty Tour to Topeka on June 9 and Kansas City on June 10 to warn American taxpayers of how President Obama’s regulatory and energy policies are causing skyrocketing energy prices – particularly prices at the gas pump.