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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (6 children)

The cost of living polycrisis is estimated to be 45-70% caused by oil energy prices; yet very few provinces, and certainly not the feds, will do anything about oil dependency.

I'm all for extracting oil, since we're still a resource economy, but don't get high on your own supply!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I wish our high was our own supply; we sell crude to the US & China and buy petrol products back!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

@[email protected]

Up until quite recently, Canada was still a major exporter of asbestos. Wielding what some have called a massive, government sanctioned, corporate run propaganda campaign to continue brisk sales of the stuff. Let's not be doing the same with oil and gas. Asbestos has killed, and continues to kill, a very large number of people. Keeping on with the fossil fuel economy, even if all Canada does is export it, could already be set to kill literally everyone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I would love to see oil go the way of asbestos and just be a problem for the next 100 years, but unless a lot of people get really cool with nuclear power and plastic alternatives, we're going to be using a decent amount of oil products for a while. I would rather avoid a situation like Germany, where we build a dozen coal plants because a foreign nation decided to stop playing nice.

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