I want an honest oil war

[Starchild]

Canada's a far nicer place to live than America (trust me, I lived in both). You get all the American stuff but it's screened through a giant filter to edit out the crap.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Yet another reason to invade Canada:

5) Thier current PM is prone to more spectacular "Bushisms" that Bush himself.
Witness:
"A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven." - Prime Minister Jean Chrétien

This obviously proves that they are trying to upstage us on the international scene and must be stopped.

Please. He was spouting that sort of crap since 1993. Bush is ripping off his bit, not the other way round.

You can't even avoid copying us.

[Asher]

Originally posted by cinch
Ha! The joke's on you! The biggest oil sands in Alberta will "dry up" before you hit Red Deer!

Sure, we've technically got some of the biggest oil areas in the world, but when it takes you 1/3 of a barrel to extract 1 full barrel from the oil-mud-sludge, you know you're not gonna be running a profit for long.

The oil reserve figures after taking into account bitumen extraction are still well above even Saudi Arabia's reserves by a good margin, and they're still making more discoveries.

[Asher]

There's 1.7 trillion barrels of bitumen known to exist in the Alberta oil sands as of 2002, and using current technology that will give about 300 billion barrels of oil from Alberta's oilsands alone. That number is expected to go up more once the technology matures and the process is more efficient, not to mention they're making new oil sands discoveries all the time.

For comparison's sake, Saudi Arabia's entire oil reserves as of 1999 (latest I could find) is 263B barrels.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Asher
For comparison's sake, Saudi Arabia's entire oil reserves as of 1999 (latest I could find) is 263B barrels.

2001: 261.8 BB

[Dinner]

Bitumen is just young organics. Bury it in the ground and let it stew for a million or so years and all that bitumen will be ready to be turned into high quality petrol.

[cavebear]

I respect the Canadians. When Nixon was fanning the flames of the US "Generation Gap" for political gain, the Canadian leader of the time solved his by marrying a coed.

Is that cool or what?!

[Dinner]

When I'm an old geezer I'd love to piss away all of my money romping with a coed.

[Wezil]

That's better. A good natured taunting is no problem. In fact, it is part of being Canadian.

Drake - Lumber is a big one. There is a four letter word for it - 'wood'. It is really frustrating being accused of 'dumping' cheap wood when the simple reality is that we have a f*** of a lot of trees and wood is cheaper here. Strange you (the US) don't want to apply similar trade duties on say..... fresh water? I accept that your position is contrary to US policy however. Like most issues the US is not a monolith.

Ozz- Good plan. I think Alaska would fit nicely into our little Confederation. Has anyone asked them nicely so as to avoid the invasion part? You know, it is a long way to go and all, and we can't really trust BC to accomplish the task by themselves.....

obiwan and Frogger - Yeah, Chretien. *sigh* I did list our governments as a thing we can be ashamed of and Jean Chretien is a dazzling example of stupidity. I wonder, do Aussies feel the same about Howard? I'm not trying to be nasty but he does look a little Mr. Magoo-ish, no?

Asher - Yep, Alberta is chock-a-block with the stuff. Can't wait till we here in Ontario get our hands on it! (Aside - Watch this Yanks. ) Perhaps a reborn NEP is in order?

Cavebear - Trudeau did have flair. I wasn't a big fan of his policies but he did give us the NEP so he couldn't have been all bad.

[Thud]

The Canadians would probably even support our invasion of them! What a grand idea!

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Yet another reason to invade Canada:

5) Thier current PM is prone to more spectacular "Bushisms" that Bush himself.
Witness:
"A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven." - Prime Minister Jean Chrétien

This obviously proves that they are trying to upstage us on the international scene and must be stopped.

Prepare the moose!

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
During both of the real wars we fought, you were the British. The land you are on now was called British North America. And you accumulated a 0-1-1 record with the British.

Where does a scorched capitol fit into those numbers?

[Ben Kenobi]

and we can't really trust BC to accomplish the task by themselves.....

Wezil, I guess we're all wacked out on weed, eh?

Only the Southern British Columbians, ie Vancouverites. You don't want to mess with the northerners. They're the ones who ship all the lumber, and still make a profit despite the duties.

All the pansy Vancouverites would go home rather than face the cold of Alaska. Even in the summer.

notyoueither-

That's a draw. We burn their capital, they burn York. Washington = York.

[Wezil]

Weed?

They have that in BC?

Well that does explain a few things. Does that make the Premier a dissenter? I hear he likes the booze?

[GePap]

Visit Canada:

It's the US without Americans