Oil Relationship Better When Seller Looks Just Like Us!

Wow and this guy is the director of the Canada Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,...I wonder what the new definition of scholar is?

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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?

The new definition of a scholar is somebody who promotes the "competitive equilibrium of the global marketplace".

Only scholars can understand what "competitive equilibrium" means?

Us hicks in the sticks have been trying to figure this one out for years. Perhaps our local faithful could give us a sermon and scriptural certification on the subject.

Ed Deak, Big Lake, BC.

I'd hate to think that I resemble Ralph Klein.........

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RickW

"The purpose of economic competition is to eliminate competition"...." - John Kenneth Galbraith

We have major price problems at the pump. Alberta knows it has something Americans want. People can say: 'Look, there's Canadians who look just like us supplying us with oil,' instead of people who don't look like us."

WHAT? That statement turns my stomach.

But Biette says he hopes that other provinces don't take Alberta's lead and start major individual lobbying campaigns on Capitol Hill.

"As much as I love Canada, I don't want to see 10 provinces running around Washington trying to get attention."

WHAT? I think the new definition of scholar is immature, jealous sixteen year old. Poor Woodrow Wilson, he must be turning in his grave. Scholar indeed! This guy needs a barrage of emails aimed at him.




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"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche

Matt Simmons, energy investment banker and Peak Oil preacher, isn't convinced that production of oil from oil sands could be ramped up in time and in sufficient quantity to make up for projected shortages caused by a declining world conventional oil production. See last paragraph in excerpt quoted below.<br />
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From a recent article found on energybulletin.net:<br />
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Kicking the oil habit, to Simmons, means primarily using less transportation energy. How to do this? "Liberate the work force" from commuting. He even used the word village to describe the new environment for work. He urged "reduction of globalization" that makes products as cheaply as possible somewhere to be shipped via oil somewhere else.<br />
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"The Energy Crisis has arrived." - his talk’s title. He concluded, "Grow food at home." What? That sounds like "doom and gloom" eco-speakers like me! I have often inhabited the radical fringe when it comes to the news media’s preference to serve up my old firm Lundberg Survey’s typical reports on minor price changes in gasoline rather than my critique of energy consumption and land use. Simmons also said we need to "walk and bike" - so he’d certainly applaud Culture Change's long-time project Pedal Power Produce that extends the home food-garden potential.<br />
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As for natural gas, he says there is no plan when one country imagines its supply will come from another country that in turn has other plans. As natural gas is crucial for instant heating and cooling for industry and people’s homes, he pointed out the vulnerability of the elderly to natural gas supply shortage. He said that if a cold winter had materialized in 2005-2006, we would have experienced huge price spikes and a major energy and economic shock. "If the U.S. had had a winter that Europe had, there would have been a massive blackout - in winter." This instance of petroleum vulnerability is one of "too many flashpoints and no spare capacity."<br />
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Culture Change has reported on the likelihood of a shock triggering collapse that aggravates the tight supply situation already existing due to peaking extraction in the face of rising demand. In my speeches and interviews I mention most often a possible trigger in the guise of hurricanes or revolution in Saudi Arabia. But Simmons had one for us: MEND, the Nigerian organization of tribes opposing foreign oil companies: "The tribes will win in their effort to get rid of oil companies."<br />
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Regarding unconventional oil sources, he disabuses us of the hype that oil shale, heavy oil and/or tar sands will be any so-called next Saudi Arabia. He explains that these substances are too energy-draining to produce on the scale some hope for: they cannot be mined and processed in sufficient quantity efficiently enough as high-quality resources for them to have a major effect on mitigating the energy crisis that has already started. For example, Canada’s tar sands production is estimated at best to reach the level of 2 million barrels a day in a few years, but Simmons doubts it. He pointed out that this expectation would involve using 20% of Canada’s natural gas (which is dwindling fast). And, Canada is already "failing on Kyoto due to tar sands," he said.<br />
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Continued at:<br />
<a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/17555.html">http://www.energybulletin.net/17555.html</a>

The tar sands oil extraction is a conglomeration of economic, ecological and health disasters waiting to happen for no logical, or real economic reasons, except to prop up a fraudulent economic system.

At this time, technology is controlled and misused to "create profits" for multinationals and flood the markets with unnecessary garbage, causing great damage to the environment and humanity. I have been preaching for 25 years that wisely used technology could easily establish energy efficient, sustainable, healthy, locally based economic systems.

Humanity has survived and grew on local economies for thousands of years, with the use of the most primitive technologies. Now would be the time to use our heads, use the knowledge we already have and dismiss the profit demands of the stockmarkets to set up sustainable food and industrial production systems for the benefit of the human race.

Look at the architectural and artistic marvels of some of the palaces, churches, etc. in Europe and in other parts of the world. All created by human intelligence and hands, with primitive tools and by candlelight. Now imagine what the human race could build and create with wisely applied modern technologies, without the deadly constraints of the fraudulent, globalized market economy system.

Ed Deak, Big Lake, BC.