I did some calculation when I made my 1st post.

134B total. if 50% goes to material, 20% goes to profit, and 10% goes to other costs. about 27B goes to wages. If a worker averagelly makes 50K + overhead of 40% = 70K per year. That translated to 382857 job-year. Assume the project takes 10 years to complete. Each year you will get 38,286 new jobs. That's for the construction phase.

The trans-Alaskan pipeline has about 30 stations. Assume a similar pump-station structure, the project will benefit 30 small towns. Also I think 1000 people per station is too high. A lot of pump stations in Alaska are in the wildness. I doubt one can maintain a 1000-people station in the middle of nowhere. What does your source say the # of workers per station?

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• $134B is for the projects in the oilsands, not the pipe. -cultuslake- ♂ (564 bytes) () 02/23/2012 postreply 17:15:09

• On the other hand, -cultuslake- ♂ (357 bytes) () 02/23/2012 postreply 17:29:12

• I doubt they will share 10% to every landlord, -sweetptt- ♂ (56 bytes) () 02/23/2012 postreply 20:16:30

• This has nothing to do with landlord. -cultuslake- ♂ (536 bytes) () 02/23/2012 postreply 20:56:14