Global is reporting that "Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the war in Iran underscores the need for a new pipeline connecting her province’s oil reserves to the West Coast."
OK hold on for one second. There already is a pipeline from Alberta to Vancouver. In fact, taxpayers are already twinning that pipeline. Does she want a third pipeline?
Danielle Smith is really determined to turn Alberta into a welfare state. We want Canadian taxpayers to build pipelines for us so we can make money. Private companies used to build pipelines with their money as an investment. Kinder Morgan ran the project until they bailed when they saw political opposition so Justin Trudeau bought it with tax dollars.
Yet we still keep getting shafted at the pumps in Metro Vancouver. In fact, people are saying the Iran war could mean billions for Alberta and trillions for Saudi. Why is that?
It's because when you cut supply the price of oil spikes and Saudi makes more money. So will Alberta at the expense of tax paying consumers. Danielle Smith is seizing the opportunity to make even more money from federal tax dollars.
When you read the headline you're left thinking maybe she means a third pipeline will help reduce the cost of gas at the pump for Metro Vancouver consumers but that's not what she's talking about. She's talking about selling more oil to China.
That will have zero effect on lowering the price of gas at the pumps for Vancouver. The problem with the price of gas at the pump in Vancouver is the fact that we send the unrefined oil from Alberta to Washington State who refine it and sell it back to us at a profit. That's the problem we face.
That is why we have the highest gas prices in all of Canada. So before we build a third, fourth or fifth pipeline in BC we need to build a refinery to ease the burden for tax paying consumers who are shareholders in the Trans Mountain pipeline.
The other day I filled up in Langley at 204.9. Today it was 207.9. That is Donald Trump's manufactured emergency that not only caters to his puppet master Neo Con Netanyahu, but to his bffs in Saudi that gave him the luxury jet and convinced Trump to flip on domestic production in exchange for $2 billion in Jared Kushner's hedge fund.
Which forces us to ask why is Danielle Smith really taking trips to Saudi on a private jet? Saudi see Alberta as a competitor. In his first term Donald Trump got America off their dependence on Saudi oil and Joe Biden got them back on it. Trump was going to fix that in his second term but all the Saudi bribes prevented him from doing it. Now tax paying consumers are suffering because of it. Is Danielle Smith taking trips to Saudi to sell out Albertans like Donald Trump did?
Or is she just selling out Canadian consumers by agreeing to Saudi's terms of reducing domestic production to keep the prices high while she sells all the surplus to China since Stephen Harper sold our oil rights to China years ago.
There are a lot of dirty deals going on here and we need to shed the light on them. Before we build a third pipeline to China we need to build a refinery in BC. That is what we need to do.
If you ship refined oil to China it will require less ships and you'll make more money. You'll send more oil on fewer ships and reduce transportation costs. That means more profit.
Man it must be shitty having a vehicle you have to fill up every other day
ReplyDeleteActually I get 1000km to a tank om my golf diesel.
DeleteFuel is an after thought.
Your electric car however has cost billions in subsidies, Infrastructure and realestate and waterways.
Not to mention much of the world burns hydrocarbons to power up the charging stations.
But yeah keep on keeping on with the virtue signaling.
Electric car batteries are made with conflicted cobalt. My motorcycle gets pretty good mileage but the oil companies are not our friend. They have funded Communist revolutions in the past worshiping the almighty corporate monopoly.
DeleteI'm pretty sure by now we've come to realize that it doesn't matter what the common citizens vote for whatsoever. This is simply a game of "damned if you do, damned if you don't" sprung onto the population by groups who are far more wealthy, far more powerful, far more intelligent, far more organized, and far more psychotic than the other 7.99 billion people on this planet can even comprehend. Case & point, we outnumber them by that much and we still can't figure out how to all get together and rid ourselves of these absolute psychopaths. That is stupidity at its finest.
ReplyDeleteYes and no. The rich lobbyists give both parties campaign contributions which influence them greatly. The politics then give their lobbyists tax dollars like SNC Lavalin. Yet a rich man's vote is worth the same as a poor man's vote. That's why they spend so much money trying to censor, con and brainwash you. That's why it's so important to keep on speaking out and confronting the lies. Public opinion does matter.
DeleteAs I've said before it's like a pendulum that swings from one side to the other. The moral of the story is we can't have blind faith in one side over the other. We need to admit our side can do bad things and when they do we have to speak out against it just like when the other side does. Blind obedience is blind. If we can see that, we're half way there. If we give up they have complete control.