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Chris J. Karr's avatar

"Why is it that God placed so much oil in so many politically unstable and hostile places? At least we have Canada, although even if Biden had not canceled the Keystone pipeline, it would not have been open for business until next year. Republicans might also want to sanction Canadian oil in retaliation for the breakup of the trucker protest. Who knows?"

I'd argue that it's less about a God placing fields in those areas, as much as those fields permit hostile and otherwise unstable political regimes to survive, precisely as we're observing now. If Russia wasn't sitting on a lot of oil, I believe the Putin regime would be collecting dust in the history books. Ditto for the House of Saud as well.

I can't speak for the Canadians, though. I fear that if we sanction them, they'll make up for the energy shortfall and retaliate by sending barrages of Timbits over the border.

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SGman's avatar

Fun fact to keep in mind: most of the oil Keystone XL was to carry was going to be exported to other markets, and not used within in the USA.

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