Here is my 2 cents ...

The oil and gas industry allows North Americans to live lives that would have been indistinguishable from magic a few short generations ago.

The world consumes 100 million barrels per day and oil consumption isn't going away anytime soon.

Huge, boarderline insurmountable regulatory hurdles have been erected against Western Canadian energy developments.

The net effect is that made in Canada economic development is stifled. All the while, consumers continue to buy oil shipped in from places that do not have Canada's environmental, moral or ethical standards. The height of hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance IMHO ...


Why is Western Canadian energy being singled out for treatment that is not given to other sources? Why are the masses not fighting against Venezuelan oil being shipped into St. John or Montreal? Why? Well, you get shot if you obstruct the oil industry in Venezuela. In Canada, protest allows you to prove what a great global citizen you are.