According to the National Energy Board (NEB), Canada imports approximately 80,000 barrels of oil a day from the kingdom, about 12 per cent of our total oil imports.
That amounts to about $2 billion a year that we pay Saudi Arabia for oil that is refined in New Brunswick and consumed mostly in Eastern Canada as gasoline, diesel, or airplane fuel. The Irving refinery in St. John, N.B., counts on Saudi Arabia for forty per cent of its crude oil.
Maybe we should be calling that oil “dirty oil.”
Given that Canada is the fourth largest oil producer in the world and has more than enough oil to supply the whole country, it has long irked Western oil producers that while opposition to pipelines and tanker traffic on the West Coast has met with vociferous opposition, oil tankers from Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Nigeria, and Norway regularly unload on the East Coast and yet there is not the same outcry.
Sure, the oil imported on the East Cast is a lighter, sweeter crude than the tarry diluted bitumen that would be exported from the West Coast.
But given that we might want to think about cutting off Saudi Arabia, which supplies the second highest volume of oil imports after the U.S, because of its mafia-like behaviour, perhaps we should reconsider that Energy East pipeline project TransCanada mothballed a few months back.
It looks pretty good right now given that both the Trans Mountain and the Keystone XL pipelines are stalled indefinitely.
Imagine that! Utilizing our OWN resources here within our OWN country, and NOT paying a fortune to the UAE, who have a pretty crappy track record for human rights. Considering our Idiot-in-Chief seems to think Gender and Indigenous rights supersede everything else, it seems incredibly hypocritical, doesn’t it? Only a complete moron would think the current situation is a good idea…oh, wait…never mind.
UAE are a helluva lot better than the Saudis!
I see this is a good place to avoid as Timmy Bill is here merely to troll and stir up shit. He has had his head up his own ass for so long he is beyond any type of help as the brain will shut down completely if restricted long enough from oxygen.
TOO LATE
Let me explain why. That fat fuck of a leader of the opposition in Alberta has said he will cut off BC’s energy supply if they don’t bow to Alberta’s wishes.
Saudi Arabia, in our recent spat with them, said they will not even consider doing something similar.
Who would you choose to do business with? Someone who is reliable or someone who constantly threatens your oil supply?
I live in BC and I would support Alberta simply shutting down the oil that is being transported in the Trudeau Pipeline. If BC doesn’t want the oil, why continue to sell it to them? Notley IS as stupid as she looks.
Is that the oil they don’t want?
Timmy Joe as usual you have no clue what you are talking about here
But that is not surprising
Turdo Sr created this problem when he was in power and created his NEP to try to take over and control Alberta’s resources
Alberta refused to let this happen So Turdo Sr went out to try punish Alberta by creating Petro Canada and buying oil from the Saudi’s
Which remains in place right to today
The Saudi’s could care less They will sell oil to anyone
As far as BC goes They cannot have their cake and eat it too
You can not pretend to be environmentalists and protecting your province on one hand while polluting your waterways and rivers when it suits you Their protesting of the Kinder Morgan Pipeline is not only hypocritical It is Un Canadian
Who do you think is worse, TB? The fat fuck in Alberta or the fat fuck in Ontario? I think the fat fuck in Ontario is more dangerous.
Ford will neuter the greedy public sector unions in Ontario – including bringing the uber greedy teachers’ unions to their knees. …So Gordo, best invest in a good pair of knee pads!
We need a mass protest by all unions to shut the country down. Blockade all ports, blockade all food terminals, and force the government to the realization that this country is run by unions.
The Teachers Unions will destroy Ford before the end of his term. Bet on it!
Did you notice that other unions are stopping the postal trucks from leaving the depots in BC? We can shut this country down at the drop of a hat, and leave you scum starving in the streets. Up the Unions!!!!
You n Timmy Joe are both morons and deserve each other
Good question. Why are we still importing oil from the countries that support so many of the Islamic radical terrorist groups that are helping to make Africa the Middle East and parts of SE Asia war zones? In this case I’m referring to both Saudi Arabia and the United States of America.
Absolutely. The Canadian oil industry is being throttled to death by Canadian Federal Government.
They are being throttled to death by the Americans but you prefer to blame anyone but Americans, because you idolize them.
Your boy JT is interfering with non Keystone pipelines and non American customers.
Surely you can not be that naive or stupid to believe that
The US had absolutely nothing to do with your boy Turdo killing off the Northern Gateway,Energy East , and Kinder Morgan pipelines
That is all on the Canadian Feds
Timmy represents that bizarre cloister of peoplekind who inhabit this country that share joy in Justine’s plan for Canada. It’s simple. Number one. Ruin the economy. Number two. Overrun this country with foreign peoplekind who haven’t the skills to clean toilets. Number three. Shelter all of their wealth in safe locations away from here. Number four. Walk away after this place is a full fledged shithole. Mission accomplished. Thing is that retard Timsy will not have the resources to escape the inevitable. But he was an useful idiot….
I like foreign peoplekind! They make good meatshields and cannon fodder. Besides how hard is it to train them to clean toilets and lay bricks? Even Noteley’s kid can’t fuck that up.
“Surely you can not be that naive or stupid…” rhetorical question, right ???