Posted on 02/06/2021 8:51:44 AM PST by rickmichaels
Canada absolutely has to retaliate for the outrageous and cavalier cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline. The millions of Canadians who celebrated former U.S. president Donald Trump’s departure from the White House may start to wonder if the new era is quite as paradisiacal as they had expected. President Joe Biden promised to ”rebuild our alliances,” yet with no notice given to America’s closest, oldest and least abrasive ally, with whose leader he is personally friendly, he revoked the existing arrangements and withdrew the permit to construct the pipeline, throwing 11,000 of his countrymen, and possibly as many as 40,000 Canadians, out of work.
Other executive orders that Biden issued in his first week in office reaffirmed his desire for a $15 minimum wage and additional immigration of unskilled foreigners at a time when the United States is still attempting to reduce COVID-related unemployment. The Keystone decision was connected to the usual proclamation of incoming latter-day Democrats to generate vertiginous numbers of high-paying, unionized green jobs, manufacturing solar panels at uncompetitive prices after retraining disemployed energy workers. It all has the air of a hasty and ill-considered shotgun response to the various members of the ramshackle Democratic coalition that includes organized labour, ethnic minorities, the altruistically prosperous, radical ecological advocates, the media and the academy.
This is not going to work. The only thing Biden offers is that he is not constantly, and often irritatingly, in the face of the whole country every day on television, and tweeting, often provocatively, throughout the night. President Trump’s policies were broadly endorsed by the congressional and state elections, but those who found him a trying or obnoxious public personality narrowly outnumbered the immense army of his admirers.
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Sounds good to this Alaskan!
Canada can tell the USA to pound sand, no more oil in the pipelines crossing their border.
We have Alaska, and we have plenty of room in the pipe. Fill ‘er up!
Trudeau taking action? LOL. Thats funny?
Hollywood film history tells a tale of such a situation, “The Mouse that Roared.”
Please, Canuckistan, don’t attack America, we can barely afford to subsidize every other country on the planet much less one such as yours and the countries YOU subsidize.
“There is no political, military, or terrorist threat to that flow.”
I guess Biden shutting down the pipeline which was producing 880MMB per day into Nebraska and a FirstCoast News Network guesstimate the job loss to as many as 88K jobs, plus the support companies, is definitely damaging and political.
Canada can sell their oil where ever they want. And with Biden damaging the contractual basis with Canada on oil receipt, there aren’t enough trucks to do what is needed, Canada can now sell their oil to anyone to include setting themselves up as one of the US competitors in exporting.
They may do so just to balance the loss of jobs and profit. Canada can produce it...we can’t move it. It’s a free market and I don’t blame them. But the libs in our country are going down the road of energy changes and where does that leave Canada’s oil production. In the sand unless they go after a new market. And why should they subsidize a market in the US they are competing with that is drying up?
wy69
hopefully they boycott florida... 😁
It was a bad move on Bidet’s part but Canada needs to realize, it is 5th rate, if that, power that is totally subservient to the US when push comes to shove.
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When HarrisXiden Regime is done, it will be the other way around - achieved without Canada having to do anything different.
Canada is our largest National Park... would they really retaliate?
I guess it stands to reason that they’d do so.
There’s a similar one showing Mao and Alexandria Occasional Cortex.
well, I’d not say they were our longest ally, seeing how they supported the Brits during the Rev War and the War of 1812, along with encouraging indian wars on settlers, but, they are our little brother and a rather quiet one at that, (when they’re not bragging how much better they are than their bigger brother, that is). And, they’re not Mexico.
That said if we had any kind of leadership, there would be pipelines running east and west out of the tar sands, Canada would have no energy taxes and the cheapest energy in the world.
Much like the US, we have no political leadership.
“Much like the US, we have no political leadership.”
One of the problems I feel Canada has had to face with their oil sales is dealing too much with the US. Currently, and for over 8 years, over 95% of their oil exports went to the US. So there was no price marketing or political hobnobbing for trade off deals with many foreign countries they could have used to get better financially. I agree with you on the lack of leadership the US has had as we have had a steady run of career politicians since Eisenhower in the late 50’s. But that is what made Trump different. The US voted for a CEO and got changes to our economic policies that made us all wealthier and put rogue countries in check by our standards. That’ll stop. Biden is a career politician.
The US doesn’t even need Canada oil except due to politics. The US hasn’t even made a dent in ANWAR, or the Florida oil still in the ground. Our ground supplies in Texas are underused and we haven’t even started a huge supply in the Rockies. (And won’t for four years a least since Biden cut out a number of drilling starts with his signature) Fact is we export oil back to Canada along with our biggest energy support to them, natural gas, that is also piped. U.S. natural gas exports to Canada mainly go into the eastern provinces of Canada with it coming from the western provinces. It just needs a visa twice. In November 2019, the United States became a net exporter of all oil products, including both refined petroleum products and crude oil. And that’s without those vast supply areas I mentioned above.
But as the US liberal party and their demented ideas about ecology continue to hammer our joint financial agreements that were working and sustainable, the love affair and joint cooperation between the two countries will be stressed as Canada will not want to go down with the US sinking ship. At some point they will have to $hit or get off the pot. And I agree with them. They never should have been set up as a petroleum prostitute for the US to begin with. And Canada will feel it first as our use of oil products slows and we will not need the Canada Shale oil. Then who will fold first? Toss up.
wy69
“Like how, invade and finish the pipeline?”
Not a bad idea. Most Canadians I’ve met are a lot tougher than the weenie leftists here in the states who can’t find the right bathroom.
I guess I worked with too many snobby, arrogant, anti-American Canadians when I was in Asia.
I just have no respect for the country. It is a beautiful country ruined by the Canadians
“I guess I worked with too many snobby, arrogant, anti-American Canadians when I was in Asia.”
Well, that’s the problem right there, isn’t it? To understand the Canadian, head out to Sioux Lookout in Northern Ontario and hurl around a bunch of insults. Before you know it, the Indians will scalp you and throw you on an ice floe in Moose Factory to be slowly eaten by giant polar bears.
Moose factory map:
https://mooseknuckelusa.blogspot.com/2020/12/moose-factory-ontario-map.html
Not wishing you any harm, just reporting reality in the cold Canadian north. BTW, should you ever get the opportunity to go walleye fishing in Canada, take it. You will absolutely love it.
Just make sure that twice each hour you scream this: God save the bloody queen and F*** the Frenchies in Quebec.
:)
[I guess I worked with too many snobby, arrogant, anti-American Canadians when I was in Asia.]
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