[rederic]

The guy that wrote this article for the National Post might want to look here: http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=6493 and consider it an introduction to the real world.
Rederic

[curmudgeonII]

The U.S. can minimize foreign oil imports any time it wants.
All that is necessary to do is to stop making those damn SUVs.

[Knightsofswing]

I always thought that confusion & denial were the 51st&52nd states!

LOL :)

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The first paragraph is rather silly. Alberta's oil already goes into the US via the Interprovicial/Lakehead pipeline.

[djf]

The Treaty of Peace between the United States and Great Britain, 1783, which ended the Revolutionary war hostilities is still recognized by International Law as valid. It says in it that Canada may, at it's own dicretion, at an time, with or without Congrssional approval, as a whole, join the United States. It doesn't say whether that means an isolated Province or not.

[JimRed]

With Alberta as America's 51st state, the U.S. would secure 300 billion barrels of recoverable oil reserves, more than exist in Saudi Arabia.

If this is true, why do we even bother with the middle east for our oil supplies? It's right next door, in a country that we now tolerate but usually like. Smaller shipping costs as well.

Something's fishy about this one.

[liberalnot]

wouldn't it be cheaper just to buy it, and not have to pay those high welfare and health costs of canada?

[The Iguana]

Throw in Saskatchewan and it's a deal.

[Dane]

I would welcome Alberta.

Canada can keep modern British Columbia. Filled with too many leftist dopeheads.

[No Dems 2004]

Maybe we should trade them California?

[Peter Libra]

An extremely simplistic view here. Alberta could simply claim the special privileges that Quebec already has. Yeah, if not, why not? The biggest betrayal came in the Trudeau years against this Province. (The National Energy Policy).Even to this day, many Canadians do not realise exactly what this man was. His memory is enshrined by the government controlled television.
He forced certain people to hate Canada- that is part of his legacy, in my view. I have heard that it is the oil sands that present the biggest challenge to modern technology. If it could be solved- bye bye scurrying and flunkying around certain middle- east people. Well, some of us can dream, I guess. I worked in both Lethbridge and Medicine Hat, Alberta at one time.

[Clemenza]

Better BC and Alberta than Puerto Rico.

[stainlessbanner]

Getting into the Union isn't easy.

Getting out is harder.

[CPT Clay]

Make it Yukon and NW Territories while you are at it!!! I'd like to see a gas pipeline from the North Slope.

[ONrevolutionary]

Ontario... the land area of Texas and Montana combined, the 7th largest population after Pennsylvania, home to the 4th largest city in the U.S., Toronto, and 18 congressmen and 2 senators in Washington D.C. Hmm... :D

http://www.ontariousa.org