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Originally Posted by rubecube
I don't get the whole argument that we're buying Saudi oil, so build the pipelines to stop that. The two seem unrelated to me. Unless we put in some crazy protectionist policies, we're still going to be buying oil from countries with poor human rights records regardless of our own oil production.
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The question should be "why are we buying so much foreign oil at the expense of our domestic producers?" As you say, the odds are pretty good that any additional oil we purchase to meet additional needs likely have a human rights cost attached. But that is no excuse for not buying from Alberta or Saskatchewan first.