On the fence about my thesis

At this point in my research process I didn't fully utilize all the skills that was presented to us in the library sessession. So far the research that I've done was solely to structure the format of the my paper. For one of my sources I only typed in "Keystone XL Pipeline". I choose to go broad because I was a substantial amount of articles to look through because the aim was to get information on the issue. I was trying to start with a blank slate. After this I tried to find articles that support and did not support the pipeline. The other two articles gives information on what contributes price determination. I took this approach because I did not have any prior knowledge of the issue and also I see Mary Thill the use this technique. She would pull up an article then look for the keywords that is used in that article and then use it to find more articles. So I'm planning to go through these articles and use them as a basis of inspiration for more detail search.

The issue that I'm covering in my paper, which is the foundation of my thesis, is that the Keystone XL Pipeline will not bring down gas prices in the United States. From the research that I have been doing this issue seems not to be a topic of relevancy, so I'm assuming that maybe it is openly understood by a majority that it will not bring gas prices down. That maybe the real issue which is what I'm keep coming a cross in my reading is will the pipeline make the United States less dependent on foreign oil. So I'm at a stand point of where I should go with my thesis. My new plan is to do more research and be more fully verse on the issue and find out more about what are the reasons for those that support it and those that don't then try to build my thesis somwhere there.

My thesis as it stand would be the Keystone XL Pipeline will not bring down the United States gas price because supply and demand do not determine the price fuel at pumps but instead crude oil speculations. Also if supply and demand was a determining factore it still would not affect U.S gas price because the oil is meant to be for the world market and not the United States.--This is the thesis that I'm on the fence about but I'm investigating the following.

The Keystone XL Pipeline will not make the Unite States less dependent on foreign oil because the oil is meant for the foreign market and also the sole motivation is not bring down domestic pump price but to protect the state that Austin Texas refinery company has in the pipeline.

So it is between one or the other but I need more research to determine on the direction. I don't want to write an argument paper about price if no one is argueing about price. But the argument could be about dependency on foreign oil.

School?

I believe education is very important if not essential but I beleive many people including myself is hiding in school instead of taking big risk in life and follow their dreams. The positives out weighs negative when come to going to college but many times we hear those story of those people who commit themselves one hundred percent in chasing their dreams. I like learning and I love knowledge but sometimes I do get bored sitting in a classroom and I just keep toughing it out because it is supose to be good for me. I will definitley stick to pursuing a degree because I like to finish commitments that I started. But I wonder sometimes, what will I hide behind after I receive that deploma? What will I hide behind when I graduate from college?

Will I go through the motions of creating a resume, going to job interviews and then sit in a cubicle eight nine hours of the day depressed and not satisfy. Will I justify a career in the same manner I justify school? Then another question arises, should a person be in a place where there heart is not in it completely? Should they just keep going because they don't know what they want to do or should they put in all their effort in trying to figure out their passion.

Like I said I like learning and the skills that I have acquired so far in school is helpfull but I wonder if I would be better off chasing dreams and goals without the back up plan that a college degree provides.

The Keystone Pipeline

My research question is, what effect would the Keystone Pipeline have on U.S gas prices. The Keystone Pipeline is a crude oil (unrefined oil) pipeline that is already constructed in Canada and within the legislative process of approval to be constructed in the U.S. The pipeline is meant to transport crude oil from Canada through various points in the U.S-Illinois being one of the points-to be refined into useable fuel such as diesel and gasoline that is used at the pump.

After continuously hearing about the effect both political ideology believe the Keystone Pipeline would have on gas prices, I was curious on finding out which one was true. Those that are for the pipeline say that it will create jobs, stimulate the economy, loosen Americas’ dependency on foreign oil and bring down gas prices because we are so close to Canada. Those that are against the pipeline not including environmentalists say that the pipeline will not effect U.S gas price by bringing it down because the pipeline is not to provide fuel to the U.S market but to other regions such as South America. There are good points on both sides but I really want to find out what will happen to the U.S gas price if the pipeline  should ever be ran through the United States.

In choosing this topic the double entry journal did help because I was able to choose from a number of potential topic. Some of the topics that was in my journal did not fulfill the requirement of this paper, so they were terminated. The journal also gave me an idea of how many issues that I am interested in.

Thinking more about the topic, I think that after all the research and observing similar situation that is similar the pipeline argument, that it will not bring down U.S gas price even if it was going to be used by United States customers. This is because the price of fuel is determined on a world market not on a domestic market like the U.S. We would probably only see a difference in the suppliers cost of bring fuel to the market but suppliers don't usually tend to drop the price of their product due to the the fall cost of production but due to the falling demand of customers. After the research I will be able to back this claim up or discover otherwise.