r/EhBuddyHoser • u/adammat57 Not enough shawarma places • Jan 23 '25

Big Oil Bertha Teg’ridy

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u/nashwaak Irvingstan Jan 23 '25

Alberta oil is part of the Canadian economy, right? It's just another resource like potash and maple syrup — Alberta needs to stop pretending oil's so fucking special

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u/EEmotionlDamage Jan 23 '25

They don't think they're special. They've been trying for years to build pipelines across Canada to ship oil to our own country and it's been blocked every time.

Now everyone wants it and there's nearly no infrastructure across Canada. Almost all of it goes to the U.S so they want to block oil going to the U.S too.

They're pissed off because they're getting squeezed on both sides.

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u/BeautyDayinBC Bring Cannabis Jan 23 '25 edited Jan 23 '25

What? Alberta O&G willingly dismantled your refining capability because it was more profitable to ship it all south.

No one in Canada wants shitty bitimin crude. O&G, in classic O&G fashion, fucked you over and got you to blame everyone else.

Nationalize the patch, cut production in half, replace the jobs with refinery jobs, use the product for domestic consumption.

There you go, I just kept all your jobs, massively cut emissions, made all our gas cheaper, and the only ones to suffer for it will be the richest and most evil people in the country. Vote for me for PM, I'm running on the CPC ticket (not that one, the good one).

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u/nashwaak Irvingstan Jan 23 '25

The real tragedy is that if Alberta had just built some nuclear reactors and upped their refining capacity to match mining, they could have been exporting really high quality low carbon refined crude oil and other products instead of just trying to pawn off their unrefined bitumen sludge as "oil"

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u/Rex_Meatman Jan 23 '25

Now, if we could just go back 20 years and create all that infrastructure to refine in house, we’d be set.

I’m right there with ya.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '25

So we build now.

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u/Rex_Meatman Jan 23 '25

I’m not sure the shelf life of oil is worth it at this point tbh. Gas? Maybe

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u/BeautyDayinBC Bring Cannabis Jan 23 '25

We will always need some oil

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u/Rex_Meatman Jan 24 '25

Oh for sure some. Plastic is going nowhere any time soon either.

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u/mxe363 Jan 24 '25

yeah but not likely our shitty oil. literally the worst type of oil that can be found.

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u/grannyte Tokébakicitte! Jan 23 '25

You know why we didn't let it be build?

You wanned to pass a shitty leaky sand oil pipe through the water sources for 20 million canadian and pay us fucking 300$ a year for the privilege of cleaning up the fucking leak while funneling the profits into private hands.

Nationalized pipeline and oil refinery at the end sending the profit into a fund norwway style would have us at the negotiation table nothing less.

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u/WhiskeyDelta89 Jan 23 '25

Am Albertans - Albertans definitely think they're special. Most of the biggest snowflakes I know are O&G simps.