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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Actually, you're right.
The only way to encourage large scale change is by making alternatives more viable economically, or, better yet, costly to continue at the same rate.
This is something I've never understood about alberta. Beautiful country with vast resources of wealth. Why people wouldn't put up solar panels for instance, a small, single expendiature, that would take care of some or all or more than the energy the use just doesn't make sense to me.
Why wouldn't albertans want to sell as much oil as possible elsewhere and use the money they get from it to make their lives better, instead of being some of the most inefficient users of energy in the country. Less resources used by albertans = more to sell elsewhere = more money. Calgary and Edmonton are two perfect environments to be testing and implementing lots alternative forms of energy that could be used throughout canada.
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Flash, I need to first say that I enjoy a large portion of the posts you make at CP, however this is one of the most uninformed arguements I've ever read. The export price of natural resources is set by an international standard (in the case of oil, OPEC). Albertans do not save a dime because of the resources that exist in the province. Gas prices are lower in Ontairo than Alberta right now. Nevermind the US.