Anti-Keystone pipeline ad is a low blow to Canada

captain morgan

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Looks like your toys can use a rebuild.

You should go and run along to mother and beg her for a new train set
 

hunboldt

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Looks like your toys can use a rebuild.

You should go and run along to mother and beg her for a new train set

Given the odd advice, I suspect that your relationship with your mother was rather troubled. I used to ASK my mom for favours.


Did you coat yourself in sackcloth and hold out a wooden bowl...?
 

damngrumpy

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I just went and looked in the mirror, I don't feel desperate, I don't feel bad
I just hope this pipeline never gets built. Cliffy is right the Harpo Government
is more like Harpo Marx when it comes to the environment.
I am opposed because I want all products going across the line value added.
I also don't want us sending as much as we can either, we need to dominate
the energy industry for the future. We own the stuff and we should have
preference when it comes to access and price. Jack the price and limit the
supply for foreign interests. Its called economic nationalism Canada First for
Canadians

Wait I just watched this again and I think it was a good commercial
China will benefit more than anyone else and a lot of the oil will be
for export. We are going to satisfy the thirst for oil in Asia. Its our
best weapon. We can use it to starve their economy down the road
and rebuild our industrial base. Corporations have no loyalty
and that we need. We will be the leading areas for oil in the future
 

MHz

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I would rather see the tar-sands shipped out as a raw product and by conveyer belt. Once broken up to be put on a belt the little jiggles along the way make it bind to itself. That is why trucks and rail doesn't work, you can load it, you can't unload it. A belt would have it appear as a string in a spill or at a port where being put in a chilled liquid will mean it is still a string at the other end and they get the sharp sand (grippy things) as a by-product of the 'grease for industrial bearings' $$$

Even as a liquid you are crossing mountain ranges rather than following the valley. The best line out of the north and Alberta is along the outlaw trail that is said to go from the Yukon all the way to Nevada or someplace that far south. Longer but an easier build for liquids. A conveyer belt can go uphill (takes power) and downhill (makes power) so Stewart, Alaska could be a deep water port for the tar and sand cargo. Full cleanup in a crash as it acts like a solid.
 

captain morgan

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I just went and looked in the mirror, I don't feel desperate, I don't feel bad
I just hope this pipeline never gets built. Cliffy is right the Harpo Government
is more like Harpo Marx when it comes to the environment.
I am opposed because I want all products going across the line value added.

Just so I have this straight... You admonish Harper (but no other Canadian leaders that have pursed even more reckless enviro policy) for his eco-policy, yet you want more refineries and petrochemical plants at the same time.

Can you see how your comments are diametrically opposed?

Remarkable how one is able to twist their own logic into pretzels in the span of a couple of sentences and still believe they make sense.
 

hunboldt

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I just went and looked in the mirror, I don't feel desperate, I don't feel bad
I just hope this pipeline never gets built. Cliffy is right the Harpo Government
is more like Harpo Marx when it comes to the environment.
I am opposed because I want all products going across the line value added.
I also don't want us sending as much as we can either, we need to dominate
the energy industry for the future. We own the stuff and we should have
preference when it comes to access and price. Jack the price and limit the
supply for foreign interests. Its called economic nationalism Canada First for
Canadians

Wait I just watched this again and I think it was a good commercial
China will benefit more than anyone else and a lot of the oil will be
for export. We are going to satisfy the thirst for oil in Asia. Its our
best weapon. We can use it to starve their economy down the road
and rebuild our industrial base. Corporations have no loyalty
and that we need. We will be the leading areas for oil in the future


An extremely good point. Given China's vast oil shale deposits they may not need more oil for a while, once their directional drilling goes full swing.