33 Replies to “Free Ethical Oil!”

  1. “Are we really more ethical than countries like Saudi Arabia”
    Easily the most stupid comment made by a Canadian journalist in years.
    And given the daily drivel on CBC, that is an amazing record to hold.

  2. Maybe I’m expecting too much from Scott Reid but perhaps he would like to explain to us “beer and popcorn” guzzlers what fuel source we should be using, where we should acquire it and why.

  4. Wow!
    Ezra just gets better and better.
    Please Ezra, can I have some more of that news slathered with awesome entertainment you’re serving up.
    If these Saudi SpokesSlaves from CTV think Canada has institutionalized ethics problems similar to KSA they should be ashamed of themselves for being LPC shills all those years the LPC ruled Canada.

  5. Considering how ‘green’ the left is these days, Scott Reid’s continuing ridiculous comments are in danger of becoming a fuel source so disdained by the left: HOT AIR!

  6. ethics are variable.
    ~mojo
    Yes they are.
    The point Ezra and the Ethical Oil Institute(and book) are trying to get across to each individual is to get them to ask themselves, “Do my ethics allow me to value erzats green issues above real human rights issues?”.

  7. Much of our society has “stockhom syndrome” having been captured by the socialists leading the country starting with Trudeau and the media supporting that since his coronation.

  8. About this:
    “Are we really more ethical than countries like Saudi Arabia”
    Ezra asks if the CTV talking head would have said that a week ago.
    Yes, she would have. If she’s a true self-loathing anti-civilization lefty, should would have said that a week ago, had the opportunity arisen.

  9. Scott Reid “I drive a SUV”
    Wow, eh!
    Who, is in the least surprised by this shocking admission of guilt?
    Anyone, anyone, anyone…
    Al Jazeera North.

  10. At the National Post, following the links from BCBlue, Tasha’s article is right on, most of the comments agree, and Jonathan Kay’s misses most of the point of Ethical Oil completely (and no comments were allowed on his article – the craven mama’s boy). Because he thinks oil is fungible, and the demand will continue, then no boycott of Saudi oil would be effective. However, the idea of ethical oil is intended to show people opposed to the Athabasca oilsands that it is actually preferable to buy fuels and products made from synthetic crude from Alberta than from jurisdictions that oppress women and have poor human rights records. North America uses very little Saudi oil, and expanding oil sands production will help Canada, and may not hurt Saudi Arabia; the point of ethical oil is to promote Canadian oil sands production, not to boycott other oil.
    Unfortunately, the Keystone XL pipeline is designed to transport bitumen, so it is not interchangeable with oil, even heavy crude, so it is a different, though related commodity, so it is not as fungible as ordinary oil.
    Ethical people should support it for many reasons; it benefits the Canadian economy, it will benefit the US economy, while giving them a secure source, it does not oppress women or minorities (actually tending to better local native’s economic situation), has no chance of supporting terrorism in any way. If people buy shares in oil sands operators, they can make money, no shares are available to the public in Saudi Aramco, or other NOCs.
    If Kay is right about not being able to pay extra for the ethical brand, how can it be that “green” windmill-produced electricity commands a premium that the eco-manic dupes fall over themselves to sign up for? Utilities might sell twice as much of that power as they generate!
    It is to laugh.

  11. Earlier today, after I watched this The Source episode, I watched Coren’s clip from CBC’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes -a spoof about SNN. The big joke was portraying women journalists from SNN as bimbos. Yet I have never heard any of the SNN women say anything as dumb as “”Are we really more ethical than countries like Saudi Arabia?”. That statement (question) is shockingly our of touch with objective reality and bordering on complete ignorance. It would have been interesting to find out what exactly she meant: environmentally unethical, misogynistic, ???

  14. When one keeps in mind that if Saudi Arabia had no oil, we would either ignore it, or as per Afghanistan, correct it for enabling islamofascism, it all makes sense. The mistake GWB made was in not seizing the Saudi oilfields instead of going after Iraq. Remember the Golden Rule: he who has the gold (in this case petrodollars) makes the rules, and enables world wide Wahhabi terrorism. I see no reason for Canada to maintain diplomatic relationships with the Saudis. They are as corrupt, twisted and evil as Iran.
    CTV are a bunch of quislings. Look it up CTV folks, it ain’t a compliment and we are at war. Saudis aren’t our allies. Far from it.

  16. The Saudi’s woke up one day back in the 1930’s and got told that they had beneath their feet vast amounts of a valuable product.
    But the amount is finite, they have passed their peak already.
    And squandered their money, when they should have been dragging their country into the present. Today they have no industry, no manufacturing, no science breakthroughs, no rights, no freedom.
    The window of good fortune will close over the next 100 years, and they will go back to being a broke and backward land, existing as the guardians of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.

  17. The mistake GWB made was in not seizing the Saudi oilfields instead of going after Iraq.
    ~tanker
    Saudi Arabia contains the cities of Mecca and Medina.
    GWB didn’t want a war with the entire Islamic world.
    I agree it was a mistake.

  18. CTV BIM-BO.
    I weep when I look around and see intelligent, articulate young people who can’t find jobs and compare them to Jacqueline Milczarek, Anchor, of CTV News Today and CTV News Weekend.
    But wait! She’s a Ryerson grad. Doesn’t that say it all?
    Pass me my smelling salts.

  19. LC Bennett, I saw the same clip. I’m more disgusted that they thought Margaret Atwood was smart and worth getting an opinion out of. The ladies at SUN TV News can take care of themselves. That’s a by-product of not being a CBC lackey and a conservative.

  20. Yeah, what’s with Jonathan Kay? The word sellout keeps popping up.
    His article made no sense at all.
    He must be getting invited to some high-powered parties and doesn’t want the invites to stop.

  21. Are we more ethical, the stupid cow is wearing forty pounds of makeup and showing some cleavage and if she lived in Saudi Arabia she’d be a prisoner in her own home. Jesus wept CTV should hang their heads in shame.

  22. Its nice to see some truth on TV for once. Not the usual leftist bromides.
    Sun TV has done a great service for Canada. I hope they keep being ttruth tellers not jaw movers. Ezra was supurb

  23. Tasha is a hero, but I am not sure who is the bigger moron, the empty headed CTV twit or the beer and popcorn guy.
    CTV tries to portray itself as centrist, but occasionally they let the truth slip out.

  24. What is more jaw-dropping than the anchor asking that dumb-dumb question, is the fact that Scott Reid can still get work! Seriously!

  25. H’mm – interesting alliance of religious fundamentalists: warmistas and Islamists.
    Kind of reminds of the current threat of a SLAPP against Tim Ball by warmistas Andrew Weaver and Michael Mann, backed by a Suzuki Foundation lawyer:
    http://drtimball.com/2011/tim-balls-libel-case-and-legal-defense-fund/
    Both the National Post and Canada “Free” Press refuse to report or editorialize on the threat of this lawsuit and have pulled the offending articles by Tim Ball from their websites, leaving Dr. Ball to twist in the breeze. This is despite the fact that Andrew Weaver, unless he also has a trust fund, has to be funding his portion of the SLAPP using a salary funded by taxpayers (he has been a civil servant most of his career even while lobbying against tar sands development).
    As a taxpayer I would welcome some deep and unrelenting media scrutiny of Andrew Weaver’s lawsuit activities, including his source of funding.
    It would be something if the National Post grew some cojones and piled into Weaver and Mann, but I ain’t holding my breath.

  28. Canadian journalists and their bosses are for the most part ethically challenged, stupid, spinless weasels that don’t care about freedom of the press or freedom of speech. They run and hide when it’s time to stand up and be counted. They embarrassed themselves when they ignored the Danish cartoons issue, and have shamed themselves with their subservience to Saudia Arabia. Don’t count on Canadian journalists to stand up for what is right when it really matters.
    There are exceptions. Take a look at Sun tv if you want to see patriotic, mindful, caring journalists but don’t waste your time checking our the CBC, CTV or the Globe and Mail. These organizations don’t know the meaning of the word Integrity.

  29. Ezra would chew all of these loons up in a head-to-head debate in a nanosecond. Of course, they (like Al Gore) don’t have the nads to even try….rather the stick their noses in the air and walk on.
    CTV….take a hike. I’m done with you jellyfish.

  32. Still don’t agree with me that Alberta and Saskachewan ought to form a Prairie Bloc federal party? Those people at CTV and CBC represent a very high percentage of Ontario/Quebec political thought. We see them as Nanny State Ninnies, but they think of themselves as the self-righteous intelligentia of this entire country (remember Pierre Elliot Trudeau?) There is no reasoning with the far-left. They are Liberally Insane and dangerous.

  33. More despicable than the inanity of Scott “Beer and Popcorn” Reid is the mocking tone of CTV’s Jacqueline Milczarek during that “are we really more ethical than the Saudis” question.
    I’m done with CTV. Period.

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