Michigan business organizations and a U.S. Chamber of Commerce group launched an effort Wednesday to persuade the Obama administration to approve the building of a Canadian oil pipeline into the United States that they said would create more fuel supplies and jobs.The U.S. Chamber's Institute for 21st Century Energy joined with groups such as the Michigan Chamber of Commerce and Michigan Food & Beverage Association to form a "Partnership to Fuel America."The U.S. Chamber's energy institute cites a study by the Canadian Energy Research Institute finding the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta province into the United States would create nearly 3,000 jobs in Michigan by 2020.The proposed $13 billion pipeline by TransCanada would pump crude oil through a 36-inch, 1,660-mile underground pipeline that would begin at Hardisty, Alberta, and eventually reach key U.S. refinery areas in Illinois, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas.The chamber's energy institute launched Wednesday's "education and engagement" campaign in seven Midwestern states including Michigan because they will be heavily affected by the development of the pipeline and future refining of oil sands into fuel, said Matt Letourneau, director of communications and media at the energy institute.Read more here.