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Originally Posted by Locke
Its not even that which annoys me.
Canada is a heavily resource-based economy, where do these clowns think that the money they love to spend so much of comes from?
I'm not saying Oil & Gas is the only game in town or anything, but we need to sell what we have.
In the frenzied attempt to electrify and greenify everything all of that infrastructure has to come from somewhere. Wiring, Batteries, Ore and Rare Earth Metals...where do they think this stuff comes from? Magic?
This is what pisses me off, all of these levels of Government are trying frenetically to electrify everything for the sake of 'Saving Earth' which is all well and good, but how do they think this is all going to happen?
Its like they have no concept of sustainability or down-stream effects and it makes me feel like I want to clunk their heads together like a Three Stooges skit.
Its madness.
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I'll start by saying I think Canada should sell it's oil as long as people want oil. Unilateral supply destruction in a global commodity doesn't decrease consumption, it just makes it more expensive. I also strongly believe Alberta has future gold mine with oil sands for producing what will be heavily sought after carbon products that are most easily made with bitumen
Having said that, I always see people suggest mining for minerals for batteries as somehow equal to or worse than oil and gas from an environmental and ecological perspective. It's simply not. You also can't recycle O&G or coal. Vehicle batteries are very recyclable and there's already way more recycling capacity than batteries available. Sustainable mineral mining and recycling is orders of magnitude (perhaps 100's of times) less impactful than today's O&G exploration and extraction with regards to land use and water consumption.