Comments on: U.S. mayors want to ban Alberta oil http://www.thepolitic.com/archives/2008/06/25/usa-mayors-ban-alberta-tar-sands-oil/ Conservative group weblog that publishes daily commentary on political events and topics affecting Canada, the United States and the world. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:41:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Shane http://www.thepolitic.com/archives/2008/06/25/usa-mayors-ban-alberta-tar-sands-oil/comment-page-1/#comment-181878 Shane Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:43:06 +0000 http://www.thepolitic.com/?p=3366#comment-181878 Yup. Clean oil from dirty dictators like Hugo Chavez in Venezuela is so much better for the conscience of the American citizen. They are happy to line the pockets of socialist strongmen, because that gives them someone to invade in a few more years when he gets belligerent and threatens to cut off America's supply. No point in relying on a loyal neighbour for your supply when you may have an excuse to attack someone in a few years. But I find it particularly ironic that they are concerned about the "pollution" caused by the tar sands processing... not that they have ever been there... while Canada looks into the glassy emptiness of all the lakes of Ontario killed by acid rain from Detroit and Chicago, and watches helplessly while American power companies build carbon-powered electrical generation facilities right along our border so all the exhaust blows into Canada. Yup. Clean oil from dirty dictators like Hugo Chavez in Venezuela is so much better for the conscience of the American citizen. They are happy to line the pockets of socialist strongmen, because that gives them someone to invade in a few more years when he gets belligerent and threatens to cut off America’s supply. No point in relying on a loyal neighbour for your supply when you may have an excuse to attack someone in a few years.

But I find it particularly ironic that they are concerned about the “pollution” caused by the tar sands processing… not that they have ever been there… while Canada looks into the glassy emptiness of all the lakes of Ontario killed by acid rain from Detroit and Chicago, and watches helplessly while American power companies build carbon-powered electrical generation facilities right along our border so all the exhaust blows into Canada.

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