I live on the wild wet coast.

I admit that I drive to work everyday into our downtown -- but with a son riding shotgun because he works downtown too. I buy gas.

I see no problem with us helping out Alberta to get the oil to market.  It will get there one way or another.  A pipeline beats doing it with diesel trains spewing filth into the atmosphere.  It is surely the least effective, and most polluting, way to get the oil to market. Product will always find a way to get to market.  So rather than being an absolutist, we would do better to accept the safest and cleanest way to get the product to market.

Having said that, the crap coming out of the Alberta tarsands is junk oil.  Real oil comes out of the ground as a fluid. The tarsands need tons of diluent to flow through a pipeline.  There is a reason that it is loaded on trucks, like coal. We would do better just using that crud to make asphalt.