Canadians fear U.S. energy bill clause could disallow oil-sands exports 9

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   Tasermons Partner Posted 8:17 am
   11 Mar 2008

   Be nice if it did......but they'll just "fudge" the numbers on the GHG life-cycle or contend that it isn't an "alternative" fuel.  One way or another, they'll try and find a way around it.

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   Delay And Deny Posted 12:21 pm
   11 Mar 2008

   Makes sense......instead of getting oil from a stable republic next door with a resource that will last at least 500 to 1000 years, we should go halfway around the world and import it by ship over the oceans while pouring billions of dollars into a region controlled by terrorists and apostates.
   Brilliant.
   
   

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   leitaimei Posted 3:40 am
   12 Mar 2008

   CanucksGrist,
   Could you be a little more condescending when you speak of Canucks, please? We are so darn cute, we get all in a tizzy when people, especially 'mericans, treat us with too much respect.
   Oh, and could you also consider putting out a print publication? As most of us live in igloos, we have no access to Internet. However, we are willing to make the big trudge over to the big communal igloo to pick up our mail, which arrives once a month. If we found some Grist in our mailboxes, we would be just tickled pink.
   God save the Queen!
   
   Taimei.

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   geobeck Posted 4:08 am
   12 Mar 2008

   How much we talkin' bout?Just how much oil does the USA get from Canada anyway?  A couple of barrels here and there?  Cutting off the oil sands won't make that much of a difference.  It's not like we're the USA's #1 source of oil or anything.
   Oh, wait a minute...
   
   http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publica ...

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   earlysnows Posted 6:25 am
   12 Mar 2008

   alberta tar sandsWhen they get done destroying northern Alberta to extract this oil, an area the size of Florida will be a wasteland.
   
   It is currently full speed ahead in the tar sands since global warming does not seem to be a concern for the developers--who happen to hail from all over the planet.
   
   Go to pembinainstitute.org for the complete story.

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   earlysnows Posted 7:17 am
   12 Mar 2008

   alberta tar sandssorry, it's pembina.org
   
   

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   caniscandida Posted 7:53 am
   12 Mar 2008

   James T. Kirkis Canadian.  Well, William Shatner is, at least.  And he has always been mighty cute, in one bodily form or another.
   And then, there was that positively scrumptious lad who did the red-bloodedly anti-USA Molson's ad, it seems a lifetime ago.

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   wmhouse Posted 8:34 am
   12 Mar 2008

   Canadian OilsandsCanada is the #1 foreign supplier of crude oil to the U.S.  However, I don't know why Canada is so anxious to maximize crude oil exports to the U.S.  With prices heading inexorably upward, the oilsands resource will be worth far more 5, 10, 25, 50 years from now.  As a proud Canadian, I suggest that we throttle back a tad and pay much more attention to the adverse environmental impact of oilsands projects.

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   Tasermons Partner Posted 6:19 am
   13 Mar 2008

   They want the money now......they're not willin' to wait that long for it.  And besides, they're afraid of what the market conditions might be 50 years from now...what with Wall Street and all of lower Manhattan literally under water as a possibility, the economic outlook might not be so good.

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