XPost: bc.politics, ab.politics, can.politics   
   From: puela@nyet.ca   
      
   On 1/6/2015 1:29 PM, M.I.Wakefield wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Is that why the Saudis are investing nearly $80 for alternative energy sources?   
     . . .  $80 Billion for nuclear power and $240 Billion for solar power?   
   They're rich and smart.  Much smarter than the likes of rightwing dimwits like   
   you.   
      
   > If fossil fuel energy is cheap, nobody ... hmm ... Ontario Liberals ...   
   nobody   
   > smart will pour money into expensive green energy.   
      
   If foreign companies close up shop in the tarsands, the 'fossil fuels' won't be   
   so cheap - because they won't be so available.   
      
   > 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%.   
      
   I guess consumers need to be taught a lesson:  DOUBLE the tax rate for   
   purchases of trucks that are not necessary for everyday business.   
   And increase Motor Fuel taxes and Carbon Taxes on those types of vehicles.   
   Consumers will get the message fast enough.   
      
      
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     It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the   
   environment   
      
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