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The amount produced by wind is a small fraction of electricity production.

That's despite heavy subsidies in many places.

CA got 11 gigawatts from solar in 2014

Gigawatts are irrelevant. Gigawatt hours are what's important and a lot of them. The US uses petawatt-hours of electricity. For 2014 less then 5 percent of that was from wind. Sometime this century world total energy use could reach the exa-watt range. Wind is a small factor.

Its an even smaller factor if you consider the ares to which oil through the pipeline can be put to use. It mostly would be used to power cars and trucks. Electric cars and trucks are a fraction of one percent of the US car and truck fleet, and probably represent and even smaller percentage of the number of miles driven. Wind power is less then 5 percent of electricity production in the US. Wind power powers something on the order of a part per twenty thousand of US car and truck miles.

For the non-transportation uses of the oil, wind power is not just a tiny niche player, it isn't a player at all. You can't use it as feed stock for plastics, or to lubricate your engine.

To put it simply wind power is irrelevant to Keystone XL
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