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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
It takes a special kind of person to get me defending how we pollute the world, but you appear to be special enough to do it.
We take the oil out of the ground here, we don't use it all. You and the rest of the country and world do. You can gripe all day about us evil Albertans and our daily violation of Mother Nature's undercarriage but at the end of that day, it wasn't the three million people in this province that created the demand and used 80 million barrels of the stuff. The fine people of Vancouver, yourself included, are as guilty as anyone.
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I don't disagree with anything you've said here... either than maybe the part where you said I was special enough to make you defend yourself. In real life, I'm pretty laid back.
Of corse it's not just Albertans polluting. The US just told Alberta to up their oil production five-fold. But I've seen the huge amount of influence oil companies have in policy making. HUGE. They have the money, people, resources to throw their clout anywhere. They are the reason why so many alternative ideas have been squashed, and why oil continues to be the leading source of energy despite all the possibilities.
Alberta could pretty much dictate to the oil companies what they want them to do. How much they want them to drill, where, when, they could even tell them that they have to start building an infrastructure for green energies if they wanted to. Alberta has the oil companies by the balls and yet it seems the other way around. Again, royalties are the lowest in the world. Tell me why American oil is worth more than Albertan? I think Alberta could pull some clout, if they wanted to, but I don't think they do.
Again, I am confused.
I don't get it. I just, don't get it.