Quote: (01-26-2019 10:04 PM)kosko Wrote:
A proper east west pipeline has been cockblocked in Canada for decades now. The lunacy that Canada has to import any oil at all...
The conspiracy is the USA has Canada by the balls and coded into treaty is that Canada MUST provide a certain ratio of of its energy to the USA no matter what. So Canada sends it's surplus down south at then is forced to import it's shortages back up via the USA. It is a backwards system but it provides a buffer for USA deserves and they can do whatever they want such as expert themselves which further impacts Canada on the radio it has left for global exports. Please, someone exam why Canada sends 70-90% of its oil to the USA when the USA is in a net surplus of production themselves (2025-2017 figure ranges). How does this make any sense ?
Back to the pipelines..... East of southwest Ontario you can't get Alberta crude, eastern Atlantic crude can't get out west. East of southwest Ontario you get it from the Yankees or dirty Saudis.
It shouldn't be this difficult, a tiny nation with more resources that we can even manage and yet the level of dysfunction of how we run this land has no bounds.
Local Canadians are ignorant to it all, and our immigrants compare Canada to the shithole they came from such as India or Ethiopia and underestimate the mess we all live in system wise here.
Peter Zeihan has an interesting video related to this.