Subj : Re: Gas Crunch
To   : Finnigann
From : Newborn
Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 22:19:00

  Re: Re: Gas Crunch
  By: Finnigann to Newborn on Wed Aug 31 2005 11:18 pm

 > -=> Newborn wrote to Deuce <=-
 > 
 >  Ne>   Re: Gas Crunch
 >  Ne>   By: Deuce to Newborn on
 >  Ne> Wed Aug 31 2005 11:15 am
 > 
 >  >   Re: Gas Crunch
 >  >   By: Newborn to Deuce on Tue Aug 30 2005 23:41:00
 >  >
 >  >  >  > They've been doing it for years and it's been economically feasable
 >  >  >  > time.
 >  >  >  >
 >  >  >    Maybe so, but I don't think it's done a thing to improve OUR suply 
 >  >
 >  > Hrm... from the USA embassy website:
 >  > The U.S. and Canada enjoy the largest energy trade relationship in the wo
 >  > with Canada being the single largest foreign supplier of energy to the Un
 >  > States \u2013 17% of U.S. oil imports and 18% of U.S. natural gas demand.
 >  > Recognition of the commercial viability of Canada\u2019s oil sands has ra
 >  > Canada\u2019s proven reserves to 180 billion barrels, making it the
 >  > world\u2019s second-largest holder of reserves after Saudi Arabia. The
 >  > electricity grids of the United States and Canada are linked and both cou
 >  > share hydropower facilities on the Western borders. Quebec is a major sou
 >  > electricity for New England.
 >  >
 >  > Considering we're a large part of your oil support, and we have gobs of i
 >  > appears you're wrong.
 >  >
 > 
 >  Ne>    I agree with the Candian/US relationship, the US developed the
 >  Ne> Alaskan pipeline and then turned around and sent that oil to Japan,
 >  Ne> with the though of replacing it with Saudi crude.  Thus using one of
 >  Ne> our OUR own resources for supporting a foreign country instead of our
 >  Ne> own economy.
 > 
 > 
 > I heard/read that we didn't have refinning capacity enough to handle the Ala
 > crude on the west coast.
 > 
 > ... They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...

 
  That's true.  They built the pipeline to move the oil, but not the refineries
  to process it.  Instead they put it in oil tankers and sent it to japan.

Newborn
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