The hydrocarbon industry is under siege, outfoxed by clever tacticians that Trojan-horsed the environmental movement and made it into the formidable political climate-change beast that today envelops us like a fog. No harm at all in fighting for the environment, that should be encouraged, but it’s a totally different game as a political chess match. And the first piece to be sacrificed is the petroleum sector, a lumbering easy target that never got the hang of the PR wars. Read on…
This has been going on since at least the early 1970s.
I recall that, while I was still in high school, one of PET’s ministers (I can’t remember the exact portfolio, but I think his name was Joe Green) claimed that Canada had at least a 400-year supply of oil. Then, a year or so later, came the Yom Kippur War and the corresponding OPEC embargo. Suddenly, Canada was lucky to have even 20 years worth left in reserves. Government, environmental groups, and many corporations went along with it.
Many of us remember when it came out that it was a plot by the so-called Seven Sisters to corner and manipulate the oil market. That didn’t stop the environmentalists from continuing with their shenanigans.
“ No harm at all in fighting for the environment, ”
And that right there is where they get you with the rhetoric.
I like to respond to that with.
What’s the harm in fighting communism?
No it’s good to preserve the environment, but not at the cost of accepting the depredations of socialism.
Its an easy enough fix if you are ruthless enough.
Living their dream will cure 65% of the deluded.
The casual stupidity of todays religion(Global Warning) is only possible because we are fat and lazy.
Rich beyond the dreams of our grandparents.
Who built the wealth we squander.
Hard times make hard people and the fact that these hard times will be man made will harden those people even more.
We have been very tolerant of fools and bandits,so tolerant we are now told we must not speak and offend either of these protected classes of people.
Who tells us this?
Why the fools and bandits infesting our useless government.
So did Democracy become Kleptocracy.
Our fearless “leaders” know so much that is not so.
Human Nature and rational self interest are “dated concepts” of no significance in this “modern World”.
The protection of the useless and clueless is incompatible with a Democracy of one man-thing one vote.
For once you reach critical mass of these protected species the voter base is majority Useless and Clueless.
65% of Canadians Vote for more ,bigger,better GOVERNMENT.
And where do the most utterly useless and extremely clueless thrive?
Inside Bureaucracy.
Well we tried Reform;Most educational Failure.
Now we are trying “Embrace the Idiocy”: A certain failure.
Next it will be Two Teams.
Based on our history.
It would be nice to avoid the cyclic pattern of rise,fall and repeat.
But unless we have that critical mass of informed citizens,who maintain the roots of civilization, there is no peaceful way to avoid collapse.
Government run “Public Education” has almost certainly prevented such a critical mass.
Western Independence is an opportunity, but only if we can clearly define the good from the not.The productive from the destructive?
For evil exists and is most remarkable for its banality.
Lying and theft,those who stalk children,being examples.
What we value is important.
The hysteria toward fossil fuels can be cured very simply.
Require those who have this faith,to live by their faith.
Forget lecturing me and posing with your virtue,live the dream.
You want oil left in the ground?
Then live without its byproducts today.
We have tolerated these fools to the point where they endanger our survival.
Which is usually where the natural corrective tendencies of Human Nature kick in.
But if Canadian Idiots want to freeze in the dark,why should I deny them their pleasures?