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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
By cutting off Canadian oil, you're not reducing world consumption, you're just ensuring that the supply of it for world consumption elsewhere comes from other places than Canada. Places where there are no regulations, and there is no desire to ever have regulations. This makes Canadians and Albertans poorer and it empowers places like Russia and Saudi Arabia. West coast/Quebec activism blocking Alberta pipelines does absolutely nothing for the environment and might even harm it longer term.
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I agree with this completely. People who think that somehow Canada killing its Oil and Gas Sector or allowing it to be cut off from the world are fooling themselves.
The strategy by American big energy to use groups like Tides and other environmental groups to choke off Canadian Oil was and is brilliant to the point that these people think they're saving the world. They're not, frankly they're replacing Canadian Oil with American Oil. The California Oil Fields are a bigger environmental catastrophe that we can ever hope to match.
Nobody is going to follow Canada's suicidal leap, instead they'll laugh at us and take the market space, and Saudia Arabia will keep using the money in odorous ways, the American's will keep pumping without giving a crap. The Russians' will fill orders gleefully.
You want to make the smart environmental play. Encourage and regulate Canadian Oil and Gas, find ways to improve its extraction and refining and shipping from a environmental standpoint and increase our market share while decreasing Saudi and Russian Oil Shares.