New from the Fraser Institute: In America’s National Interest—Canadian Oil
The study points out that Canada now provides more oil to America than all the Persian Gulf countries combined, even though America imports 5.5 million more barrels of oil daily than it did in 1973.
Also, in 2009, the US relied on Persian Gulf countries for 14.4% of its oil imports, down from 24.5% of all US oil imports in 1979. In contrast, Canada supplied the United States with 21.2% of its oil imports in 2009, an increase from the 6.4% Canada supplied in 1979.
In addition to the reality of American oil demand and imports, this report measures how major oil-producing jurisdictions around the world, defined as those that produce more than 250,000 barrels of oil daily, perform on 17 comparisons of civil, political, and economic freedoms. The comparison includes eight measurements specific to women’s freedoms. A total of 38 countries, from five continents, are compared.
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Download it here (7 meg pdf)
Well that should send Lizzie May into fits of rage.
And Vivian must be driving May even crazier . . .
http://fairquestions.typepad.com/rethink_campaigns/2011/07/usa-charity-against-friendly-canadian-oil.html
Betcha the Saudis don't like the fact that Canadians are eating their lunch.
And why didn't the Americans start a war on Canada "for the oil", like in Iraq. Mainly, because Iraq wasn't strictly about the oil...
Oh yeah, and the Americans lost the War of 1812!
That's why they needed whitewash to spruce up the White House.
So "Canuckleheads" are giving the Saudis an economic flogging, and you don't have to eat at "Burka-King" restaurants. But then there is the Toronto Distict School Board...or the recently convicted "Toronto 18".
We should have new jingle:
Ethical Oil! The explosion is in your car's engine and not on the street!
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, C in C
1st St. Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North"
Of course, all of those figures would drop if the US were to start tapping into its own massive reserves, but that won't even be thought of until January 2013 at the earliest.
I see that the government of Canada finally acknowledged that Canada must diversify crude sales away from the USA. The USA currently buys about 97% of Canada's crude exports. You wouldn't run a business that way.
The Enbridge line to Kitimat has to be built asap. It is a matter of national security and just plain good business. Those that oppose this project should have their welfare cheques cut off!
The " environmentalists " could care less. Their agenda is a socialist takeover. That's why closing down oil sand production ( which is their true goal; no production) is a top goal of these wingnuts: it would hurt both Canada and the US; it's an anti-capitalism twofer!
The report states : " With the exception of Norway, Canada Is the only major oil-exporting country that
scores highly on all measurements of civil, political, and economic freedom, including the rights of women..."
That is self-evidently true. The radical's constant condemnation of Canada is not based on an effort to keep Canada true to her heritage, but arises from the fact that the enviros ways are fundamentally not Canada's ways. Their goal is conquest, not reform.
And all along here I was thinking that 'bama didn't like our 'dirty' oil.
small c conservative
"The " environmentalists " could care less. Their agenda is a socialist takeover. That's why closing down oil sand production ( which is their true goal; no production) is a top goal of these wingnuts: it would hurt both Canada and the US; it's an anti-capitalism twofer!"
Pretty much!
Remember the moonbat enviros not only do not regard Hydro as renewable but seek to remove the dams.....
"So the rivers can flow free...."
(picture a bearded hippy with unshaved legs pirueting in a tutu...)
Getting energy exports out the west coast should be of a national urgency. Not just oil but LNG as well.
I would love to see upgraded synthetic crude heading out on tankers from the west coast but realistically bitumen exports might be all we get.Capturing 80% of the value sure beats capturing 90% of 0.
An LNG plant would mean quite a expansion of the NE BC gas plays. Despite the best efforts in Vancouver and Victoria the rest of BC wants things like JOBS.
Some political muster and we can get these things green-lighted.
How can you tell Canadian oil is Ethical Oil?
Ask yourself which country you'd like to live in.
Ezra Levant is a brilliant word smith among other good qualities. "Ethical Oil" the title of his very worthwhile book encapsulates in two words an argument that devastates leftist environut posturing.
so basically, when things with the liquid hydrocarbons get dodgey, we can expect Abrams tanks on the street corners.
gee, has that ever happened before?
"Shut down the tar sands" is a lie by lefty liars and their stooges. No government on the planet would shut down such a resource. "Shut down the tar sands corporations" is the true sentiment. The puppet masters behind it all just want to capture and control all the wealth being produced and keep it out of the hands of evil corporations and their wealthy investors. If they accomplished their national socialist goal, the oil sands would be nationalized and operated by slave labour.
Here is a complete list of US oil imports from 1910-2010. http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/PET_MOVE_IMPCUS_A2_NUS_EPC0_IM0_MBBLPD_A.htm
Note Libya= 43,000 barrels/day
Note Trinidad and Tobago= 45,000 barrels/day
Would our oil prices have jumped as high if Trinidad was experiencing political unrest instead of Libya? I don't think so.
yop
Trudeau tried that in 85 with the results being the West almost seperating, with a huge recessionon that lasted 10 years.
Socalism means they pretend to pay us, we pretend to work. Creating an atmosphere of no goods at all except a black market.
ct:
The Kitimat line will be approved one week after Keystone XL is kiboshed by the (pick one) EPA, AGW crowd, enviromental cases (sic), Democrats.. oh, I could go on, but why bother?
Kevin B:
I think Keystone XL will be approved. USA foreign policy in the ME is in disarray to the point that even the Saudis are wondering where things are headed. The new boys on the block are Iran and Turkey.
My previous comment should not be taken as anti-American but pro Canada business. I simply do not think it is good business to sell resources for less than world price and that is what is happening with our oil.
Revnant Dream: you really need to get your history straightened out. The National Energy Program was launched in 1980, not 1985. Trudeau and the Liberals were out of office before the end of 1984, so it's hardly likely that Trudeau tried to do this in 1985.
Also, the NEP was launched at the beginning of the 1980-82 recession. It was not "a huge recession that lasted 10 years."
ct: I would like to think so, but the sheer power of the environmental lobby in Washington cannot be understated. The green slime has far more power and money there than we do.
Fred: the real question is not whether or not Lizzie May is driven to fits of rage. The real question is, is Lizzie May or any of the organizations she's fronted or worked for on the take? Odds are, yes, because Tides Foundation has scattered its millions far and wide. A further question, is the Green Party of Canada on the take from Tides Foundation?
What, we're supposed to believe that Lizzie dropped all her US financial support just because she became a political party leader? We're supposed to believe this from the woman who got her start in political life at Bill Clinton's desk in Little Rock?
Now THAT'S a political scandal of the first order.
cgh
I stand corrected for the time line but the 10 year ressesion lasted that long in Alberta. I probably mixed up the years because that was the first job I got after the disaster. I was out of work for 5 years. Doing house painting, roofing, landscaping, & other things just to survive.
I should know since I lived through it.
Trudeau tried to Nationalize the oil industry. In one day here 50,000 people out of 3 million lost their jobs with the eventual spill off to other industry. While not working, I helped the food bank deliver baskets. You would have been shocked at the communities where I delivered them. Before the maniacs provincial intrusion, where a few short months before, they where enclaves of the wealthy. His communism failed as bad as the Sea Hitler.
RD: there were two things at work here. The first as you quite rightly point out was the failed National Energy Policy. Partly it was nationalization in creating PetroCan. And partly it was wealth expropriation with the federal government accruing revenues properly belonging to the province.
The second issue was the prevailing very low world oil prices that continued for at least 10 years. In large measure this was Iraq and Iran dumping large volumes of oil on the market to sustain the Iran-Iraq war. The one good economic outcome of this was that it broke OPEC's ability to control the world oil price, but that was little consolation to places like Alberta which got hit by this. Both of these things I agree prolonged the recession in Alberta for much longer than the rest of Canada.
SHOW ME THE MONEY!
cliche yes but where's all the dough going?
Saudi's have free education and health care for all and pay no taxes?
Keep it coming! The commute is short, but the foot is lead.