XPost: can.general, can.politics, ott.general   
   From: fritzlang@metropolis.com   
      
   John Fleming wrote   
      
   > Corporations aren't government job creation programs.   
   > Corporations exist to provide goods and services and,   
   > ideally, return a profit to their owners.   
      
      
   I know that even those of my kind who see stupidity in 2 British Thermal   
   Units of natural gas producing 1 BTU of Oil sands oil, agree with your former   
   Premier Lougheed  and what he says today about the pipeline to Texas   
   refineries, and not building them in Alberta.   I also think that we are   
   selling Alberta by the pound.   It was years ago when cutting royalties meant   
   involving companies to be in.   Now people know that the oil sands are viable   
   and Alberta must not give them away.     This isn't 10 years ago.   
      
   Alberta's fight isn't against Ottawa, it's against themselves.   Nobody is   
   going to move out of the area because royalties for the people increase.   
      
   Where are they going to go?   The other oil sands in Chavez's Venezuela?   
      
   Fat chance.   
      
   Though I wish that oil would not be so necessary, we all know that it is and   
   will be for the foreseeable future.    So making Hay while the Sun shines is   
   up  to government.   Alberta.   
      
      
   Make those refineries, ship the finished product to the USA.  Don't ship raw   
   material.   
      
      
   Jobs should be where the natural resources exist.   
      
   Russia and Canada have nuclear industries.  Australia doesn't.   
      
   And the three biggest producers of Uranium are Australia, Canada and Russia.   
      
   I don't want to be like Australia for any resource.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)