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Didn't realize the story isn't based in Iraq
I figured we get oil from America for similar reasons as why we get softwood from them: because we're all-day suckers.
We get oil from them because nobody saw fit to build a pipeline back east. In typical Canadian fashion, our business interests just go for the fast buck, ie ship our oil to the US in as much quantity as we can. And our governments, both LIberal and Conservative collude with that. And the Alberta govt just was just eager to please them as well. It's also why we refine so little of our own oil, preferring to buy the refined product back from the US.
Then there's the fact we don't invest in our own oil extraction, preferring to let the Saudis and Chinese and everybody but us do it and pay a shitty royalty. Compare that to Norway. But then that would be socialism, ie the word that makes the Harper crowd flip their tops.
We as in the Canadian people are suckers because we allow the same thing to happen. We did the same thing with our trees in BC, allow companies it basically mine them, then move to greener pastures when they were finished raping here. Should have heard the screams when the NDP first moved to tighten regulations on the forest industry. But we still have tons of land that is NSR (not satisfactorily restocked) and you should see what was done to the CP land grants on Vancouver Island. Nothing will grow there until new soil is built up - how many thousand years does that take.
You want to know why our oil industry is so fucked up, look to the tightie righties and the business interests. But then you already knew that. And ask yourself why we support Saudi Arabia thru thick and thin, thru fucking up our oil industrty to supporting terrorism. It ain't the left that's doing that.
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