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Joe Biden looks for oil everywhere *except* his oil-rich northern neighbour
National Post ^ | March 10, 2022 | Tristan Hopper

Posted on 03/10/2022 6:42:27 AM PST by billorites

Amid historically high gas prices and a new embargo on Russian oil imports, the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden is now roaming the globe to glad-hand whatever autocratic government might be willing to sell them more oil.

Naturally, this whole spectacle is proving maddening to the giant, friendly, democratic petrostate that literally shares a 9,000 km border with the United States. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney was at a Houston oil conference this week, where he was directly making the pitch to Americans to buy Canadian and steer clear of what he called “conflict oil.”

Canada already supplies 51 per cent of the foreign oil purchased by the United States, and sources within the Canadian energy sector are estimating that we could be “immediately” sending the Americans an extra 400,000 barrels per day by rail or through existing pipelines.

We could be sending them even more, but the problem is transportation: There just aren’t enough conduits between U.S. refineries and the landlocked parts of Northern Alberta which produce the oil. So it’s somewhat ironic that one of the first actions of Biden Administration was to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline, which could conceivably have pumped enough Canadian crude into the U.S. market to replace lost stocks of Russian oil.

And it’s not like Biden can simply reverse the cancellation. TC Energy, the pipeline’s builders, lost so much money on Keystone XL that they’re now refusing offers to revive it. As oil analyst Michael Tran told the Financial Post this week, “we squandered the opportunity to make major strides to become closer to North American energy independence or North American energy sufficiency.”

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1 posted on 03/10/2022 6:42:27 AM PST by billorites
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To: billorites

And America.


2 posted on 03/10/2022 6:44:23 AM PST by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: billorites

Buttplug said they don’t want a “permanent solution to a temporary problem.”

The translation is, we don’t want our own, plentiful cheap energy. That would set the electric car market back.


3 posted on 03/10/2022 6:44:50 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: billorites

Speaking of which, how about North Dakota?


4 posted on 03/10/2022 6:48:57 AM PST by Yashcheritsiy (I'd rather have one king 3000 miles away that 3000 kings one mile away)
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To: brownsfan

To control the world (Agenda 21 Great Reset) you must first destroy America as a potent player. Then the rest fall like dominoes.


5 posted on 03/10/2022 6:49:58 AM PST by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: billorites

It’s not Joe it’s those Idiots that Hired themselves at the white House


6 posted on 03/10/2022 6:51:27 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: SkyDancer

Americans...”ALL”!!! Trump has a monster Political Rally this Saturday, March 12th, 2022 in Florence, South Carolina. Crowd attendees estimated at 50-100,000. Better make that millions of Trump supporters that should show up chanting impeach Democrat, Joe Biden...he and his Democrat Party low life cronies are truly enemies of the American people and the American Republic!!! Biden & Son, Hunter are owned 100% by Russian, Iran, China, etc.!!!


7 posted on 03/10/2022 6:51:36 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: billorites

So, the only question to be asked is the following:

Is Joe Biden
A) A deceptive evil genius out to destroy America?
B) An idiot living in his private reality?
C) An empty shell being used by evil geniuses?
D) A totally corrupt crook willing to ruin the lives of many for his own gain?

I would add an “E) All of the above,” however some of them are mutually exclusive.


8 posted on 03/10/2022 6:52:55 AM PST by Belteshazzar
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To: billorites

The Dems are trying to make it look like Oil is running out everywhere like during Carter’s time


9 posted on 03/10/2022 7:09:48 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: billorites

Quite simply, Biden is a criminal, and oh yes, he’s simple too.


10 posted on 03/10/2022 8:13:22 AM PST by I am Richard Brandon
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To: billorites

one of the first actions of Biden Administration was to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline.

And look at all the problems he caused

You still want to trust a democrat


11 posted on 03/10/2022 8:46:27 AM PST by Vaduz ( )
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To: Belteshazzar

The word “genius” (evil or otherwise) has never been used to describe Biden.


12 posted on 03/10/2022 9:12:29 AM PST by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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