We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Giant Fans

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We’re not running out of oil.

2008 was the second-best year ever for Saskatchewan in terms of actual drilling with 4,045 oil and gas wells created. Most of that attention is focused on the Bakken oil play and the Weyburn-Estevan area.

You’re running out of oil.
“Every single statement by Obama has an expiry date. Every one.”

68 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Giant Fans”

  1. Set- There are also plenty of Americans who could be a great addition to our workforce.
    My kids have some scary stories about the Bosnian muslims they went to school with. A lot of them lean toward a gang mentality.
    I’ve also had plenty of dealings with Lebanese, Syrian, and any number of middle east muslims. They were a part of communities back east long before I was born. They never seemed to cause any trouble that I remember. I can’t say the same for the new arrivals.
    I think a major source of violent gang activity is going to come from the ranks of Sudanese and Somali temporary workers, who we all know will never go home. Nobody knows how many war criminals slipped through unnoticed.

  2. Give this another couple of years and this global warming hysteria will be gone like the dodo bird.
    CO2 is necessary for plant life and emits naturally from this earth and us. There is no way you can rid the planet of it. Any warming comes from the sun and since it’s been missing of late it’s damn cold. It’s not co2 that is the problem it’s pollution. If we can get that down we all breathe better.
    If the States don’t want our dirty oil then we have to look towards Europe. Let the US try other methods they will eventually come to realize that old fashioned gas works the best.
    My vehicle is a mini van and when it bites the dust I will go right out and purchase another van. It won’t be electric, I have a golf cart and they are already on the roads – picture in a previous thread.
    My advice on this is dig,dig,dig. Build more refineries and store it for us – Canadians. Get off foreign oil. Let the ME go broke.

  3. My biggest regret was checking the box next to Stelmach’s name as my “second choice” for leader of the AB PC party after I voted for Snortin’ Morten.
    Klein may have had his faults but at least he understood the importance of building a bigger economic pie instead of just trying to carve out a bigger piece of an ever decreasing piece of pie. Eddie couldn’t carry Ralph’s jock strap as far as this tax paying Albertan is concerned.
    Also, many Albertans I met at the time of the royalty hike announcement had this to say about the hike more often than not “Where else are they going to go drill?”
    One example out of many… Encana has applied to build a $400 million processing facility in NE BC, the first phase of possible 6 to handle the “newly discovered and ever increasing” Horn River shale gas play. When fully completed it could process up to 2.4 bcf of natural gas a day. The area contains as much as 600 tcf (yes that’s 600 trillion cubic feet) of nat gas and currently 10-30% is currently potentially recoverable
    (pdf warning)
    Nota Bene: Fun with math- 1000 cubic feet currently sells for around 6$ Cdn (Aeco spot price), 1000 X 1000= 1 million cf ($6000) X 1000 cf = 1 billion cf ($6,000,000)X 1000 = 1 trillion cf ($6,000,000,000) X 600 (tcf) = $3,600,000,000,000 (3.6 trillion) worth of gas potentially in the ground at today’s prices.

  5. Indiana Homez at January 14, 2009 4:34 PM
    re Electric cars
    Excellent Nat Post article today on this:
    Peter Foster: Detroit’s hybrid nightmare
    http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/01/13/peter-foster-detroit-s-hybrid-nightmare.aspx
    “It’s hardly accurate to suggest that low gasoline prices have pulled the rug from hybrids and pure electric cars. There was never much of a rug there in the first place. Even without the gas price plunge, the Detroit show is filled with government-mandated electric dreams whose success depends on as-yet uninvented battery technology and non-existent infrastructure.”
    …
    “The big question is whether subsidizing those plug-ins will do more economic damage than anything that troublemaking foreign oil suppliers might inflict upon the United States in the first place.”
    And as I said earlier this summer, this lack of refining capacity in Canada will bite us big time.
    No one uses crude oil. Its refining leads to not just usable energy Gas/diesel/jet fuel etc. but important petro chemicals for the manufacturing sector.

  7. Ebla at January 14, 2009 5:55 PM
    Google “wind farms are not profitable”
    Filter out the “greenie” and “subsidized” hits.

  8. Funny isn’t it. Here we have a post about Sk.’s soon to be short lived oil revenue windfall and somehow the topic becomes something entirely different.
    Enjoy your flash Saskatchewan; there IS a slow down coming and only the BRAIN DEAD & the STUPID think it isn’t going to hurt the west.
    IE. TRY NOT TO CHOKE ON YOUR CROW.

  9. The rule of grammar is quite simple. When referring to “numbers of”, ” FEWER” is the correct term. When referring to “quantity” LESS is the correct term. As in “I prefer that there be “fewer” grammatical error by posters to this site – as opposed to “I prefer that there be “less” errors by poster to this site.
    On the other hand – I want “less” stupidity by some “trolls” that happen by this site.
    Don’t beat yourselves up on this one. The biggest abusers of those two terms are none other than reporters who work for the major new networks.

  10. If the USA in the 1930’s had developed wind farms instead of hydro electric dams,the allies would have lost the war.The USA built HALF the airplanes built in WW2 and the TVA supplied the electricity to manufacture the atomic bombs.Both of these took prodigious amounts of electricity.

  13. Just who’s at fault for immigrants being out of work after an artificial boom? I would point to the people who make decisions over these matters before the very people who came to work, and by doing so make Canada and a small group of Canadians money.
    spike1: Well thank god for the A-bomb huh? :S
    G: so you mean censor anything that doesn’t meet your view that windfarms are a waste right? That’s quite a reliable way of researching! You could assure yourself of anything with that method.
    Peak oil theory anyone?

  14. Last week or so Barbara Yaffe claimed that oil sands oil is no more carbon-intensive than middle-eastern oil once the transportation is taken into account. Can anyone less lazy than me back this claim from a more reliable source?

  16. Gord Tulk
    A group I have worked with in the past is currently putting together a plan for a 50,000 barrel per day coal to liquid plant in the USA. We would love to have a credible group in Canada to work with as well. I am from outside the industry; it is hard to get past the ‘gatekeepers’. Also find that most of the majors have their own pet technologies that they work on to the exclusion of others.
    If you have any interest, I would be happy to talk to you about it.

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