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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Yeah, I'm really angry.
What "logic questioning" is it that you are engaged in here? Asking us why we aren't jumping up and down and "****ing scared" about what happens when the oil is gone. Is that really "logical"? I don't think so. It's a long way off and despite rumors to the contrary, everyone in the province isn't a martini swilling oil exec or a drunken rig pig. Someone provided a link that said the oil business accounts for 28% of the economy and it's going down. By the time "the oil runs out", maybe we'll have something else to go on? The rest of the world manages to get by without huge oil reserves under their feet. We aren't so ######ed as to not be able to do something when we don't have that luxury. Or at least I hope our grandkids aren't that ######ed.
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Really?!?!? Not everybody in Alberta isn't a martini swilling oil exec or a drunken rig pig?
If I came across that way, I really do apologize. I'm just trying to play Devil's advocate, although my beliefs were probably portrayed accurately in this thread. Maybe my questioning techniques aren't logical, but I still don't really understand the Albertan culture at all despite recieving my post-secondary there.
I seriously missed that 28% of the economy post, but surely that 28% feeds many, many other industries (construction, banking and investment...) so the impact from the loss of oil isn't just limited to that 28%. Again, my whole interest in the subject is the social impacts and trying to get a good understanding of what could happen if joe normal who takes out a mortgage in a booming oil economy and then a recession happens.
Surely, like you said, Albertans aren't ######s, but I guess I want some reassurance that after oil Alberta will not become NEP-era again.