What are the chances Alberta will get a new pipeline?

JamesBondo

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Wait. . . "transcanada?" Is that like "I was born in Ohio, but I always felt more comfortable in a plaid shirt and a toque, getting drunk on cheap beer and yelling at hockey games on television, so now I identify as transCanada. I'm saving up for the surgery?"

Nope, it is more like the transcanada highway. "I'm not happy being a normal highway,so I'm going to start on the east coast and not stop until i reach the west coast."
 

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Alternative will just keep getting better and cheaper while gasoline just keeps getting more expensive.\

We are paying $1.35 for low test when oil is $50 a bbl?

What are we going to pay when oil prices rise?

Alternative vehicles and alternative lifestyles are the only answer for Vancouver.
 

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The price of a bbl dropping didn't lower labour costs, energy costs, logistics, maintenance....

It's $1.46 in Coquitlam and $1.12 in Regina.

Why?
 

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And lets be clear about the prospects for gasoline sales: not good.

If any city in the world should be going green its Hongcouver.
Racist .

So the answer is get off the gasoline.

Vancouver cannot maintain is ridiculous existence on refined gasoline. They have to switch to alternatives.
But we are cancelling Site C . Where is the electricity to come from ?
 

JamesBondo

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We're still trying to figure out how Alberta oil going through BC and off to China equals cheaper gas in Vancouver.

It's a powerful argument.

Not everyone is fixated on price.

I'm more than happy to pay world market prices to Canada instead of Brazil. And, IF there is ever a crisis that affects tankers, we would be somewhat immune to it because our crude would be arriving by pipeline.

Are you totally convinced that conflict between other countries won't ever affect the shipping lanes to Canada? With Trump in charge, I am not.
 

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Not everyone is fixated on price.

I'm more than happy to pay world market prices to Canada instead of Brazil.
You're not paying them to Canada. You're paying them to an international corporation that is taking most of the money out of Canada and stashing it in various places around the world. Probably including Brazil.
 

JamesBondo

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You're not paying them to Canada. You're paying them to an international corporation that is taking most of the money out of Canada and stashing it in various places around the world. Probably including Brazil.

so lets pay it to the international corporation that actually builds a pipeline to my town.
 

JamesBondo

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Or a flush toilet.

I don't need a flush toilet, my dog team will take me to tim hortons where I use the facilities and then I get myself a double double.

Thanks to fracking in Pennsylvania you will soon.

on a pipeline?

You're not paying them to Canada. You're paying them to an international corporation that is taking most of the money out of Canada and stashing it in various places around the world. Probably including Brazil.

Yup. It comes with various features not available from tankers.....things like bridges, schools, hospitals, jobs, etc.
 
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From alternative generating sources.
Which ones are they ? We are importing more and more people every year building more housing and business , will the Tumbler Ridge wind farm support this growth and the addition of millions of electric cars ?

Even then that 6 cents GVRD tax 6 cents carbon tax and 1% PST still leaves a big gap.
10 cents for hydro as well .
 

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Which ones are they ? We are importing more and more people every year building more housing and business , will the Tumbler Ridge wind farm support this growth and the addition of millions of electric cars ?


10 cents for hydro as well .
They are the ones that they reviewed 10 years ago and lied about then. 10 years ago they were less expensive and far less damaging.

Today, after BC Hydro and the BC Liberals falsified the inquiry findings and started the Site C without permission and spent over $2 billion dollars on it - the alternative sources remain just as cost effective.

That's how ****ing bad the Site C is.

A $2 billion head start and its still worse.