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Originally Posted by Brendone
Tariffs on crude are basically a double boot in our own junk, given how much gets refined and shipped back. 10% on the way down, which will get passed on to the consumer (us) plus another 10% on the way back. Hurts us more than them.
Tariff the crap out of anything we can replace locally, and support efforts to develop anything we don’t, but could generate locally. So stupid we ship crude to be refined instead of doing it all here. Imagine the leverage we’d have if we could shut off the taps without killing ourselves in the process.
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Another reason to do it then. Sure it'll suck in the short term, but Canadians are just as anal about gas prices as Americans are. Tell the hippies in BC that their gas prices jumped up $1/liter because we can't refine our own crude and I bet the opposition to building more refineries drastically reduces