Dear America: Get help — Your friends in Canada are worried about you

By Lorrie Goldstein:

As for you Democrats, including you, President Obama, have you gone collectively insane with regard to your energy policies?

You don’t seem to want our oilsands oil from Alberta, or Mideast oil, or offshore oil, or to drill for oil.

Where then, do you plan on getting your oil, which you’re going to need for decades to come until someone can figure out how to make wind turbine and solar power work on an industrial scale?

Do you seriously prefer tankers carrying oil from dictatorial regimes like Venezuela (isn’t Obama pretty ticked off with Hugo Chavez right now?) leaking into the Gulf of Mexico, as opposed to oilsands oil delivered with far less risk by pipeline from a reliable ally like Canada?

If you’re worried about climate change, stop ranting about the oilsands, which account for one-10th of 1% of global carbon dioxide emissions, and start worrying that you generate almost half your electricity from coal, which has an impact on the planet up to 70 times greater than the oilsands.

(In Canada, by the way, we get almost 75% of our electricity from non-emitting sources, mainly hydro power, at 59%).

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