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How did your friends respond?
They pretty much agreed to what I said, and went on to wonder why we do not refine our own crude, but sells them out for cheap, then goes on to import refined products at much elevated prices.
I told them our refineries built ages ago were not built to be able to process the thick shale crude produced from the Alberta oil sands. "Then why not build our own refineries to process our own crude?" And we went into the flip flopping of government policies, how a newly elected government can change/put on hold/cancel previously approved permits, construction projects, long term investment projects, etc. on a whim, in the name of saving the environment. A new refinery is a capital intensive, long long term investment that no sane investor will commit to a nation with this kind of unpredictable political climate.
Then we went on to discuss how Canada is a democratic communism. How it's tyranny of the majority. How the unproductive are voting to take from the productive through force enforced by the government. How the system is incentivising more people to be lazy, to take from the productive ones; and driving away prodctive people. So yea, in summary, we're fucked.
One of my biggest frustrations is how much influence public sector unions have in elections. Any entity that gets the majority of its financing from the government should not be able to donate to any politician, party or advertise in support of any politician or party. If they want to get together with all their members and tell them who to vote for that’s their business but they shouldn’t be able to run attack ads 24/7 slandering the parties they don’t think will give them the most money.
"... but the people are retarded." On full display.
I had a gathering with a couple of my friends last night and I was telling them how we should be rich as fuck as a nation because of the recent oil price surge. But through stupidity in government policies, we as Canadians are just fucked, economically, socially, and any other way. I guess this will only speed up the collapse and bring us the much needed rest? This is a good thing, right?