Canada Should Withdraw From Kyoto

The Kyoto treaty, even from an environmentalists’ point of view, is flawed and insufficient to stop global warming. It was always the intention of environmentalists that it was to be a stepping stone to something more. But practical experience is showing that environmentalists were wrong to expect that nations would be willing to sacrifice their own prosperity in exchange for something so

obama and the dems are bad neighbours

A good editorial in Barron's. obama and his dem friends jeopardize their http://www.wilsoncountynews.com/article.php?id=39500&n=commentaries-the-economist-punting-energy-security-with-keystone>own nation's energy security.


Bad Neighbor Policy
By THOMAS G. DONLAN
The U.S. government loses touch with the best source of imported energy.
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The leaders of the United States often forget that there is another country between here and the North Pole. Washington often moves without caring about its effect on our northern neighbors, especially in matters concerning energy.

Thus, we have had to observe the spectacle created over Keystone XL, a proposed pipeline that would move Canadian oil from Alberta to American refineries that have specialized technology well-suited to process it. Those refineries face dwindling supplies of heavy oil from Mexico and Venezuela.

Some of the Canadian petroleum would be consumed in the U.S. as gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel; some of these refined products would be exported. In both cases, there would be significant profits for Canadian producers and transporters and for U.S. refiners, transporters and retailers.

Canada Number 1 again!

The grits and the dippers would have you believe that with a Tory government everyone has bad opinions of Canada. This will make the dippers and grits very unhappy.

Canada has the best country "brand" in the world, according to an international business consulting firm.
FutureBrand, with operations in New York, London and Singapore, ranked Canada atop its country brand index for the second straight year.

Wake up time

This morning on the news I heard Jack Layton utter the words:In the first hundred days of an NDP government . . . And knowing, that not only is Jack serious, that sensible people are taking the notion seriously . . . you have to hope that people everywhere will remember Bob Rae and the protest vote that gave us the NDP majority in Ontario in the 90s.Maybe Jack's sincere belief and reaction to the

$4 a gallon gas? I wish

The price of gasoline in the U.S. is now hovering around US$4.00 per gallon, and pundits and politicians are screaming for the government to do something about it. Release crude oil from the Strategic Oil Reserve! Lower federal taxes! ANYTHING to ease the consumer pain of expensive gas. Nothing like this ever happens in Canada; we quietly put up with similar prices that we consider "normal", and no one utters a peep except Liberal MP Dan McTeague who pops up with tiresome regularity denouncing "speculators".

Four dollar a gallon gas in Canada? I wish. I filled my tank up today with regular gasoline at a price of CAN$1.179/liter. At 3.785 liter to the U.S. liquid gallon, and at today's Bank of Canada exchange rate of US$1.03/CAN$, that works out to US$4.59 per U.S. gallon. $4.59! There would be civil unrest in Los Angeles at those prices.

Even at prices that Canadians would consider reasonable, say CAN$1.02/liter, the equivalent American price would be - get this - US$4.00/gallon.

The difference between Canadian and US gas prices is of course taxation. Gas is taxed at exhorbitantly high rates north of the border, but Canadians don't seem to mind. In typical Canuck fashion, we meekly accept that it is our patriotic duty to pay higher taxes.

So I'm planning to take my vacation road trip to the U.S. this summer. No matter what the price of gas is down there, it will be a bargain compared to driving around Canada.