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This is where a really huge chunk of the world's oil reserves are located and, of course, it's not in the USA. $3 a gallon gasoline ain't so bad when compared to no gasoline at any price. Does anyone else see the significance of such a disruption of supply or that Saudi citizens are up to such monkey business in their own country? Or the signifigance that the USA imports 60% of its oil? Duh?

Yep I see what you are saying; however.. I think it's time that North America took her future into her own hands and realize that we are sitting on top of a HUGE oil resource in N. Alberta in the oil sands. There is enough oil there for our own use and if we can negotiate a FAIR deal between the two major players (after all the US has the resources to refine - Canada has the raw resources) we wouldn't be so dependent on the Middle Eastern Market. I don't think it's pie in the sky to actually manage our own resources instead of creating some unhealthy co-dependence on a foreign market we have NO control on. We should keep Canadian resources out of OPEC and call our own shots..... IMO..

http://www.energy.gov.ab.ca/89.asp

:thumbs: Tarsands are known to be about QUINTUPLE the reserves of the ME.

(and, there is also a much-neglected alternate--CLEAN COAL (much better than that of WV or PA)--of which AB has an abundance)

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This is where a really huge chunk of the world's oil reserves are located and, of course, it's not in the USA. $3 a gallon gasoline ain't so bad when compared to no gasoline at any price. Does anyone else see the significance of such a disruption of supply or that Saudi citizens are up to such monkey business in their own country? Or the signifigance that the USA imports 60% of its oil? Duh?

Yep I see what you are saying; however.. I think it's time that North America took her future into her own hands and realize that we are sitting on top of a HUGE oil resource in N. Alberta in the oil sands. There is enough oil there for our own use and if we can negotiate a FAIR deal between the two major players (after all the US has the resources to refine - Canada has the raw resources) we wouldn't be so dependent on the Middle Eastern Market. I don't think it's pie in the sky to actually manage our own resources instead of creating some unhealthy co-dependence on a foreign market we have NO control on. We should keep Canadian resources out of OPEC and call our own shots..... IMO..

http://www.energy.gov.ab.ca/89.asp

Bingo! Exactly the point I was trying to make. It's not just the fact that our very survival depends on a vital resource from a foreign source...a significant amount of these foreign sources are very unstable and outright hostile to America. It's about time that people in the USA come to their senses and begin to realize that we have one foot in the grave and the other foot on a banana peel as long as we continue on this dangerous path. We are living in a fairy tale economy in which we not only continue to consume more and more oil and that fact also puts our country's fate deeper and deeper in the hands of peoples that wish to destroy us.

No Dorothy, these people we buy a lot of oil from are not from Kansas and they aren't our friends either. Apparently it ticks off some folks that I brought up that very fact.

As far as the American empire goes...as far as I'm concerned I could care less if the USA continues on as the superpower of the world. Let these other countries that hide under our skirt expend blood and treasure instead of us. Empires are expensive to maintain as the money hole of Iraq graphically illustrates. The only good that will come out of that fiasco is that maybe America will come to its senses about the huge costs of maintaining an increasingly shaky and unstable empire. Once bitten...twice shy.

"Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave."

"...for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process."

US Congresswoman Barbara Jordan (D-TX)

Testimony to the House Immigration Subcommittee, February 24, 1995

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The 1 problem $$$$ makers see with the oil in Alberta is that it is tarsands, and costs more $$$$ to process, and its all about the $$$$.

Canadians Visiting the USA while undergoing the visa process, my free advice:

1) Always tell the TRUTH. never lie to the POE officer

2) Be confident in ur replies

3) keep ur response short and to the point, don't tell ur life story!!

4) look the POE officer in the eye when speaking to them. They are looking for people lieing and have been trained to find them!

5) Pack light! No job resumes with you

6) Bring ties to Canada (letter from employer when ur expected back at work, lease, etc etc)

7) Always be polite, being rude isn't going to get ya anywhere, and could make things worse!!

8) Have a plan in case u do get denied (be polite) It wont harm ur visa application if ur denied,that is if ur polite and didn't lie! Refer to #1

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The 1 problem $$$$ makers see with the oil in Alberta is that it is tarsands, and costs more $$$$ to process, and its all about the $$$$.

That is true. Up front, buying cheap energy from hostile and unstable countries makes more economic sense in the short term narrow sense, but there is a darker side hidden beneath the visible cost advantages. We do and will continue to expend blood and treasure to meddle in and prop up unstable sources of our vital energy sources. Who do you think steps up to the plate when these crackpots shut down the oilfields due to internal turmoil in these unstable countries? I'll give you 3 guesses and the first 2 don't count.

Whether it is tar sands or a multitude of other solutions is not the point to be made. The point is that the USA cannot continue to live in a fairy tale world where our country's 5% of the population burns 25%+ of the world's oil (most of which comes from markets hostile to us) and do little or nothing to curtail or reduce this insane dependence on these unstable sources. We are, in fact, engaged in short sighted policies that are guaranteed to increase energy consumption and worsen the problem instead of the opposite. Letting "the market" decide what is the best course to take instead of our own national interest will turn out to be a foolish course in the long run for our nation. The "market" gives a rat's azz about our nation or the American people.

Cheap oil? Is Iraq a cheap war? Who pays for all this in blood and treasure?

"Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave."

"...for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process."

US Congresswoman Barbara Jordan (D-TX)

Testimony to the House Immigration Subcommittee, February 24, 1995

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In general his premise was about "cycles": on how thoughout history that the dominant countries have changed. Was very intersting

Any idiot who managed to limp through fourth grade can tell you that empires rise...and empires fall.

Next!

I'm not picking any country to take USA place, whatever place USA is!! But its pretty foolish to think USA will ALWAYS be the msot "advanced" (what ever advanced is,lol) country in the world!! Maybe were just getting side tracked. I just find it amusing how 1 country makes a huge terror bust, and instead of praising them, people look for the negatives!!

I just love how you assume that we all think that. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

24 June 2007: Leaving day/flying to Dallas-Fort Worth

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Not all!! But when I posted, I didnt see any one saying what a great job it was, or praisng them!! Oh well. Have a nice day!!

Canadians Visiting the USA while undergoing the visa process, my free advice:

1) Always tell the TRUTH. never lie to the POE officer

2) Be confident in ur replies

3) keep ur response short and to the point, don't tell ur life story!!

4) look the POE officer in the eye when speaking to them. They are looking for people lieing and have been trained to find them!

5) Pack light! No job resumes with you

6) Bring ties to Canada (letter from employer when ur expected back at work, lease, etc etc)

7) Always be polite, being rude isn't going to get ya anywhere, and could make things worse!!

8) Have a plan in case u do get denied (be polite) It wont harm ur visa application if ur denied,that is if ur polite and didn't lie! Refer to #1

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Not all!! But when I posted, I didnt see any one saying what a great job it was, or praisng them!! Oh well. Have a nice day!!

Probably because most Americans don't trust the Saudis any further than they could throw them. We have no reason to trust them. I can't wait for the day we don't have to import any oil from those cheesewads...we can just flip them the bird and walk away. Schweeeeeeet.

24 June 2007: Leaving day/flying to Dallas-Fort Worth

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Use their oil up first.

"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies."

Senator Barack Obama
Senate Floor Speech on Public Debt
March 16, 2006



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