[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee

I just don't think people in other jurisdictions think too much about oil and gas, or care. I think they are mostly ignorant about their energy consumption and how much they actually consume, as individuals, and their jobs aren't directly linked to it. Then when they hear about 'pipelines' it's a very negative reaction because the only thing that hits the media are spills. It's not like the media publishes often about how successful pipelines really have been. And people are just ignorant, and politicians pander to these ignorant people.

Energy is only 10% of Canada's GDP. It sucks, but in Alberta we just don't have the numbers from a critical mass to the economy perspective nor population perspective. Regardless, it still stings the Canadian economy but not to the level most Albertans may be led to believe. And I'm not justifying the double standards, complete bull#### of the rest of Canada basically sticking their noses up at Alberta and acting superior when they aren't, I'm just saying. We probably think it's more important than it is because we live it and many of us work in it.

Think about if you lived in Ontario, and somebody came to you and said do you support pipelines? You work at a box factory or some stupid #### and you don't even know anything about oil and gas or even what your energy consumption level is at. You'd probably think hmmm... do we need a major polluting thing out there? I guess Albertans might lose jobs. Oh well, I won't. Nah, no pipeline. Don't care really, whatever.

So lets say that you work at a forest destroying carbon emission emitting air and water polluting box factory. But I can feel better about myself because Oil is bad and I'm going to fight that.