What is the benefit to shutting down the oil pipeline?

Shutting the pipeline will raise gas prices and require oil to be carried by more dangerous and more expensive rail and truck.   

This isn’t about saving Native American lands.  In fact the Ute wrote a very strong letter condemning how Biden violated treaties with them, by regulating their lands in ways he had no right to.   

Making a few people richer at the expense of killing the living world is NOT a benefit to anyone. These guys working in fossil fuels, can get another job. Just like all the other industries in the last decades, and last century that had to transform when their jobs became obsolete. Why should the planet be murdered, and the next generations have an overheated, uninhabited world they may not be able to survive because these oil workers want to keep their jobs, while making a few Rich people Richer on the subsidies they've been getting since forever. Shut them down. Do something else. Learn to change. Everyone will need to transform our way of life, or we won't have any way of life. Do it for the next generations.

Those people were going to lose their jobs anyway. Once the pipeline was built. Only 35 people would have full time jobs. Companies are going to do what Apple did in Brazil. Apple built a factory there and promised hundreds of jobs. Then when the factory was built they automated the whole factory. It's less that 200 people employed there. Once they figure out how to automate those jobs. Those people will be fired.

If they could do it easily and cheaply by rail they would have done so already instead of dicking around with this pipeline for so long. 

Killing Keystone XL will keep a lot of that oil in the ground where it belongs.  This helps everyone (except for oil companies) because it reduces global warming. 

Keystone pipeline was being built on indigenous land and it was killing wildlife 

Green new deal by radical left. Texas is suing Biden.

To be honest - the pipeline wasn't going to actually benefit the average American either.  Oil was going end up at the Port of New Orleans for export.  

Prices are dependent on supply - when the economy heats up - prices go up.  There wasn't going to be and hometown deals on gas. 

The benefit is mostly to the farmers, ranchers and municipalities who's water supply would be threatened by leaks.  Every form of transport has its' benefits and liabilities 

Edit - Anyone who talks about "tens of thousands of jobs" is clueless.  1,000 - 1,200 jobs between here and Canada tops.  

It benefits the environment.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30103078

There is no benefit. It actually kills tens of thousands of jobs.

How does keeping it open benefit the average American?  That's the question you have to answer, before spending a **** load of money.