If the U.S. doesn’t want the oil from the oil sands (you did have first refusal), why shouldn’t Canada sell it to a willing buyer? In what way is this even remotely an abandonment of conservatism?
Are you proposing we close down the international stock market??? How dumb, we owe china trillions and you think a stock transaction for a little bitty company for a 40% share is something.
I HOPE they CHANGE their mind. FUBHO!
Yet one more success for the Comrade In Chief!
this should never have happened.
Sorry Swee'Pea. "should" ain't "is."
I wonder if BC will have a say in this pipeline? If Gasoline is over $4 by election day and we aren't going to have our pipeline this will defeat Obama.
Money talks, BS walks. No abandonment of conservatism, it’s embracing it. The Chinese want to pay money for a pipeline we won’t build, then fine, take the money.
How does it feel to live in a destroyed country fellow American’s?
The canadians need to realize if they are ever war with china these “areas” will be shut down. Just a heads up, from your friends to the south, or at least we though you were. We still control the artic and NORAD(IE Air Dominance over North America). Dont side with potential enemies, yes Obama suck but give us time to get rid of him in 2012.
And a pipeline to the Pacific, from Alberta, doesn't mean oil from there still won't be piped to the US, in the future, once environmental studies are completed. Canada simply wants to diverse its customer base.
Between the tar sands, coal, and the potential gas from fracking, North America could be a large source of energy for China. North America would simply join the long list of countries or parts of the world that supply energy to China, i.e., Africa, Australia, the Middle East, Russia, Latin America, etc. None of these parts of the world have qualms about supplying energy to China. North America shouldn't either.
There is no "spat" between the Canadian and U.S. governments. The environmentalists don't like fossil fuels and are opposing fossil fuel development at every turn. Obama has caved to them. So he flipped Canada the bird and made it clear that, so long as he is in the White House, the U.S. government would block utilization of this resource.
This is not a spat. It is a straightforward policy call by a President whose conception of the national interest does not include affordable energy.
We don’t need oil. We got Solyndra.
Wow!
There are a lot of really ignorant, vicious replies to this thread you started. Great job troll! Allow me to add mine.
The U.S. has been selling or outright giving dual purpose technology and your grandchildren’s liberty to the Chicoms for decades, but Harper and the damn Canadians selling a lease to mine a tiny chunk of the oilsands is the problem.
America gives more money and sells more debt to the Chicoms than practically all other nations combined, but the Canadians (not numerous successive U.S. administrations) are traitors to your cause!?
Despite your blatant attempt to spin it, this is not a “spat between” Obama and the Harper Government (as an aside, this single statement clarifies for me the fact that you are against Harper, an Obama supporter and afraid this will affect Obama’s re-election prospects).
Your crypto-communist leftists, greenies, marxists, warmists and abortion-loving one worlders don’t want Canadian oil and do want to destroy America from within, but it’s the damn Canadian’s fault!?
Your Obama regime was offered an oil pipeline by your biggest ally, supporter and trading partner. They said “F.U. Canada, we don’t want your dirty oil or the jobs that come with it”, but Harper betrayed your trust?
You make me sick, you propogandist troll. I hope your beloved Muslim and commie-loving Obama administration gets CRUSHED in November, though he is sure to get re-elected with wide-spread cheating and helpful worshippers such as yourself.
Since you are likely being paid to disseminate your filth here, I hope you choke on it.
Kindest regards, FUBO.
The contrast with the Chinese approach couldn't be greater - they encourage foreign investment in domestic oil exploration only to welsh on the profit-sharing agreement (typically cutting the foreign company out) once oil is found. The result is zero foreign investment and increasing Chinese dependence on imported oil. Encouraging Chinese dependence on imported oil is a good thing. That way, we can stop them in their tracks (after B-2's take care of the Chinese strategic oil reserve) when they finally pull a WW2 Japanese-style invasion of their neighbors.