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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
You don't have to cut the flow, you just have to make it more expensive to operate, and that cost is pushed to the consumer (US). It's way easier to stifle exports than imports.
I would recommend taxing the difference that already exists between Alberta crude and WTI. That way there are no cost benefit savings for American customers switching to American oil, but they would no longer receive a discount.
The difference goes right into the Alberta coffers.
Smith spends the windfall on privatizing the police and health.
Crap, I've found the rancid bandaid in the stew.
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That only works if you can send the oil elsewhere. Since we can’t, the consumer has more power to decide the price. Hence the differential we already suffer under. Any export tariff is likely going to just increase the differential and hurt Alberta, while not changing much on the USA side.