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mithridates
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 Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 7:23 pm Post subject: Americans:96% don't know Canada's their biggest oil supplier |
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More interesting than the title of the article is how proactive Alberta's being to change the perception. Just two days ago they announced an $8 billion surplus which is the largest ever (I think) even after the gov't sent $400 cheques to each and every person just because.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/business/national/2006/06/27/energy.html
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A new poll suggests the vast majority of Americans are unaware that Canada is the largest foreign supplier of crude oil to the U.S.
The Canadian American Business Council (CABC) � which represents some of the biggest private sector companies in both countries � said its survey of 1,000 Americans found that only four per cent of respondents thought Canada was the country that provided them with more oil than anyone else.
The survey also found that 41 per cent of Americans asked would support replacing oil from unstable areas of the world with oil from Canada "even if doing so resulted in higher prices for U.S. consumers."
"The findings suggest a foundation of American public support for meaningful initiatives to expand Canadian energy supplies to the U.S.," said CABC chairman Randoph Dove in a statement.
"As more and more Americans recognize Canada as a secure source of energy resources, this support should only increase," he said.
The release of this poll came just as energy-rich Alberta launched a massive lobbying effort in Washington to get across its message that Canada � and especially Alberta � has a stable and secure supply of oil that it's eager to sell the U.S.
Exhibits about Alberta and its vast oil sands deposits occupy a prominent place in this year's Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington.
That's drawn criticism from an environmental lobby group, the National Resources Defence Council, which says the industry and government-sponsored exhibits at the festival make no mention of the "devastating environmental consequences" the council says oil sands mining creates.
The survey was conducted by Vitale & Associates, who interviewed 1,000 people from June 13 to 15. It has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points. |
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anae
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| Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe now they will decide that they have enough money to fix the leaky roof at my school.
Nah. |
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Junior
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| Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Canada's their biggest oil supplier |
-So why not invade? |
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laogaiguk
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| Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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Because then they would have to promote democracy there too!  And could you imagine a sudden influx of massive amounts of French people! It would destroy America. |
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4 months left
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| Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Being Canadian I would hasten to guess that 80 - 90% do not know that fact either. American are slowly waking to the commodities found in Canada and other countries. Put your Korean teaching won into Oil, gas, gold, silver and uranium stocks. |
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4 months left
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| Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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| laogaiguk wrote: |
| Because then they would have to promote democracy there too! And could you imagine a sudden influx of massive amounts of French people! It would destroy America. |
Take the French, PLEEEEEEEEASE. Well maybe not all, there are a lot of hot women in Montreal. |
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laogaiguk
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| Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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| laogaiguk wrote: |
| Because then they would have to promote democracy there too! And could you imagine a sudden influx of massive amounts of French people! It would destroy America. |
Take the French, PLEEEEEEEEASE. Well maybe not all, there are a lot of hot women in Montreal. |
Hey, I'm from NB and all my girlfriends were French. It's not that I specifically targeted only French girls, but they always seemed a bit more, how can I put it, interesting  |
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4 months left
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| Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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| laogaiguk wrote: |
| 4 months left wrote: |
| laogaiguk wrote: |
| Because then they would have to promote democracy there too! And could you imagine a sudden influx of massive amounts of French people! It would destroy America. |
Take the French, PLEEEEEEEEASE. Well maybe not all, there are a lot of hot women in Montreal. |
Hey, I'm from NB and all my girlfriends were French. It's not that I specifically targeted only French girls, but they always seemed a bit more, how can I put it, interesting |
Agreed, been there, done them!! |
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Junior
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| Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 1:12 am Post subject: |
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| laogaiguk wrote: |
| Because then they would have to promote democracy there too! And could you imagine a sudden influx of massive amounts of French people! It would destroy America. |
Are there any WMD's in Canada? |
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Octavius Hite
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Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 1:21 am Post subject: |
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| No, but that never stopped Bushie before! |
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Newbie
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| Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 3:02 am Post subject: |
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| Being Canadian I would hasten to guess that 80 - 90% do not know that fact either. American are slowly waking to the commodities found in Canada and other countries. Put your Korean teaching won into Oil, gas, gold, silver and uranium stocks. |
Yep. And with the great thaw all these resources are becoming more and more accesible. |
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SeoulFinn
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| Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 4:17 am Post subject: |
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| Are there any WMD's in Canada? |
WMD as in Woman as Medium of Disease? Certainly not!  |
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Moldy Rutabaga
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| Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 4:59 am Post subject: |
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| -So why not invade? |
A province that conducts business in your country's dollars, imports your culture voraciously, is friendly to you, legislates itself to complement your laws, sends product to you, desires open trade with you, and which you don't pay to govern? There's no need for costly invasions--sounds like an empire's dream to me!
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sundubuman
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| Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 6:12 am Post subject: |
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the title of this thread is missing the word foreign, for the US remains the US's biggest supplier of oil.
Canada is the largest foreign supplier. |
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mithridates
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| Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 7:08 am Post subject: |
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| sundubuman wrote: |
the title of this thread is missing the word foreign, for the US remains the US's biggest supplier of oil.
Canada is the largest foreign supplier. |
Try adding the word foreign to the title. |
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