Posted on 11/14/2007 6:23:22 PM PST by Dane
Hmmm, that is a tough call. Bombs, or Canadian tourists...
Have you ever dealt with Canadians? For years I served them as retail customers, then I married one of them. Can’t they just stay home, send us their money?
Say what? I paid three bucks per gallon at the pump this very day.
Can't rightly say it was "gladly". But in view of everything, I'm glad we're not having to line up at the pump to be allowed 5 gallons every other day, or some other sort of rationing like we did in '73 (then having the station run out of gasoline before you get to the pump.)
The technology is already there. Testimony to that is the glut of refineries and refinery expansions currently underway in Ft. Mac, Edmonton and other areas.
The cost for processing tar sands has been greatly reduced in the past several years.
Just wait...the largest oil field/s in the ME will be in Iraq. The crude will be an extremely high grade. Sunni territory...saddamn wouldn’t open up this area...that’s why the Sunnis’ are against al qeada...exploration companies require no violence...
There is another thing to consider also. If we don’t buy up all the oil we need in the middle east, someone else will. As long as we are a big customer of middle eastern oil, we have some control over the middle east economy, and therefore can influence their governments. The threat of drilling our own oil gives us that influence. But once we follow through with that threat, there is no longer anything to barter with.
Exact-o-mundo, my friend. They want us to be vulnerable to extortion. Oil independence is not in THEIR favor.
How do you know that if we start buying canadian oil that canada won’t join OPEC?
Not likely. The Saudis are on the take, and it will be their last hurrah. At $90.00 a barrel, my Aunt Harriet is wringing oil out of her petunias.
Alberta oil sands in here to stay. Even the most conservative investment cousellors in Canada are advising their investors to buy now. There are two companies involved.
That has the Saudis all cranked.
Too bad. They have competition OUTSIDE of OPEC.
And whats more: " Screw you Chavez!"
That was unkind!
GO PATS!
Do you really think Stephan Harper would join OPEC?
“Stable supply is more important than low price IMO.”
Don’t forget to factor in transportation and security costs. Extracting oil from unstable hellholes and bringing it to market costs money. Of course, having our energy source next door in a secure, English-speaking area will be worth whatever we pay at the pump.
Well, Saudi oil is certainly much, much cheaper, as long as it lasts. But what does he mean by saying that it is a better investment? The major US oil companies invested in Arabia, and the Arabs nationalized the operation.
So, how is it a better investment to put your money in a part of the world where terror is common, the locals are too lazy to do their own work, and any money you put in will be confiscated?
Sure, you can go and work for the Saudis, and get paid well because it's such an unpleasant place. But invest?
You have to look at the bright side of things. Yes, gas is expensive, but have you seen all the “dollar” menus at the fast food chain?
Dang, most of the places are within a block of each other, you can just pick and choose, build a sensational meal with value, for like 3 bucks. Full meal deal, cheaper than a gallon of gas, who’d a thunk that 30 years ago huh?
Too expensive for WHOM? Not for them, they’re not buying. I think it is worth it and 20%, just to disengage from the sand-pounders.
Competition is ALWAYS good for the competitior (and the consumer); I doubt Canada wants to share it’s oil with the “3rd World”, especially under a Conservative Prime Minister.
Isn’t norway a member of opec? I don’t see any reason why canada wouldn’t join opec.
I'm glad someone else has finally made that observation.
Energy independence is one of the most important planks of any war on terror. We shouldn’t have to depend on what some Middle Eastern (or South American) (or Eastern) dictator says to be able to get ourselves to our jobs.
Hey, it only took me 40 yrs.
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