[thackney]

[canuck_conservative]

“addiction” to Canadian oil?

Like improving air quality will increase people’s “addiction” to breathing?

Like more restaurants will increase people’s “addiction” to eating?

Please, this is beyond silly. Advanced industrial nations NEED oil to stay advanced. Otherwise, you wind up like Bangladesh.

[Michael Barnes]

I would love it, absolutely love it if for one month liberals could not use a single product that derived itself from anything petroleum based.
The wing nutz only like to bash "big oil" but have little to no idea what they are bashing.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

More and more it sounds like the Canadians are getting fed up with Obama’s stalling tactics on the Keystone Pipeline expansion.

It is not all that far from Hardesty to a port in British Columbia.

Canada could build a pipeline or use a unit train to move this oil to a Pacific Coast port and then ship it to Japan.

Obama would be held responsible for letting a secure source of oil get away from us.

[hattend]

I’d rather pay for Canuck Oil than Raghead Oil.

Bring it on.

[Free Vulcan]

Idiots. All it will do is substitute Canadian oil for Raghead oil at best. It may not even be sold here at all. Oil is global commodity and the pipeline will enable export.

I guess this is the enviro version of Reefer Madness.

[concrete is my business]

In his book “Ethical Oil”, Canadian Ezra Levant poses the question, why is the country of origin not on gasoline. It is on absolutely everything else. Put the country of origin on the pump at the gas station so people know where that product originated.

I am curious, as someone in the industry, if you have an opinion about his idea. If the consumer gets to vote, with their fuel dollars, I think American and Canadian oil and gas products would be much more popular than Venezuelan or Saudi Arabian oil and gas. Is there any good reason the country of origin should not be posted on the pump?

[Publius6961]

Anyone who uses the word "addiction" in a presumably adult informed debate isn't worth reading.

I am addicted to food, and I have always been at or a few pounds under my "ideal" weight.
I am addicted to energy because it affects positively every other necessity of life, from food to medicines to the ability to travel. My usual expense at the pump, I estimate at 25% of the national average.

Anyone who associates "addiction" to basic needs is a functional moron.

Let's talk about a real and destructive addiction that has all negative effects to meeting real needs : Political Power.
Addiction to power is discretionary. It is coveted by "small" people of limited intellect and unlimited ego, whether elected or writing an "opinion" column.

I don't waste my time either reading what they think or accepting that they have something useful to say.