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   From: none@present.com   
      
   "Alan Baker"  wrote in message news:m8hipa$41v$2@news.datemas.de...   
      
   > On 2015-01-06 21:05:51 +0000, (=_=) said:   
      
   > > Alberta's smugness is all but over.  From now on they're going to have   
   > > to concentrate on GREEN energy sources like the rest of us.   
   >   
   > Why? In what strange fantasy world does having the price of a commodity go   
   > down result in people using less of it?   
      
   The Saudis are playing a long game ... they can pump oil for about $10 a   
   barrel ... Bakken and oil-sands are somewhere in the $60 range ... once   
   enough competing projects have died, the Saudis will ratchet up the price   
   again.   
      
   If fossil fuel energy is cheap, nobody ... hmm ... Ontario Liberals ...   
   nobody smart will pour money into expensive green energy.   
      
   And consumers are voting with their wallets ... comparing 2014 to 2013, car   
   sales were virtually flat - down 0.08% - but truck sales were up 11%.   
      
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