Here’s a hypothetical situation. Ask your Iphone or search the web for the dollar amount of “black” bottom-line profits that one of the major American oil companies made last year. Multiply by 4 to get a hypothetic yearly profit total. Then, choose one of the following options:
Take the same amount of dollars and give each man, woman, or child citizen in America an equal share. Even if it were only $5 we’d all use it somehow, right? I’m guessing a lot would take it to the local grocery store. Maybe buy domestic tomatos instead of ones from abroad or something. Then assume with all those extra $5 sales, the grocery store’s black bottom-line profit increased a little. Assume the bottom-line profit for the warehouse that supplies groceries to that store and others goes up a little too. The truckers hauling those supplies will probably get paid for the extra load they have to carry that month. Employees of “all of the above” will end up feeling a “little more positive” about the American economic situation". (just a little) We’ve made a solid base for financial change from the ground up.
Option 2. Take that same amount of money and put it in a metal trash can and burn it. What??
I’m trying to get Americans to start doing their homework again. One of the major
topics in the news today is the Keystone oil pipeline proposal (which has stalled temporarily because for further ecological evaluation). If the major oil companies can make “x” amount of $$ in a year, with the “Canadian” pipeline proposal, most of those $$ will go to (wait for it) CANADA. (OPTION 2) ie: no basis for change in the American financial situation.
Yes, it will create hundreds, possible thousands of jobs temporarily. But who gets to do the actual “hiring”? Probably CANADA. So who do you suppose will actually be hired for many of those positions?? CANADIANS. ie: NO BASIS FOR CHANGE IN THE AMERICAN FINANCIAL SITUATION.
But the most important point of choosing option 2 is the following: I’m no Remax agent, but I know just enough to realize that sometimes when you purchase land (IE: Canada buying property where the Keystone oil line wil be constructed) that in the fine print on the bottom there are sometimes terms that “convey water rights to purchaser”. Or that “convey mineral rights to the purchaser”. Hmmmm?
Has anyone read the fine print? For real? Would that mean that when Americans finally decide to go “all domestic” for their oil supplies and tell Canada they don’t need that pipeline for oil anymore that Canada can turn around and drill for oil on “those properties” and still keep major $$$ ?? Does it mean that they could drill into the Ogalala Aquifer and start piping water from “American ground” and end up selling it back to us because we don’t actually “own” the aquifer anymore??
And I can’t figure out what you’re talking about with the rest of your OP, it is one of the most painfully written and formatted OP’s I think I’ve ever seen in GD.
Seriously.
Can you maybe rewrite it a bit so that it’s non-painful?
I can’t even get past point 1…
Is the suggestion that the profits from oil companies should be commandeered and redistributed or is this money coming form someplace else?
If they take all the money from the gas companies and split it up among us, I’m gonna use it to buy a siphon to get gas out of my neighbors’ cars, 'cause with the gas companies shut down, where else will we get it?
You do know where that crude is going, don’t you? To American refineries run by American companies who hire American workers for the making of American profits that end up in American pockets. As a Canadian, I say, “You’re welcome.”
I’m good with CANADA and CANADIANS getting jobs and making money. Too bad most of the oil companies exploiting the oil sands are US AMERICAN companies.
You bet!
I still say we need to build an oil refinery here in Alberta and cut out the middle men.
Are they derived from black government operations? And how do they differ from top-line profits, black or otherwise? Then you throw regular profits into the mix. . . .
Wait, so is this an oil pipeline or a beer pipeline? I thought Keystone was made by Coors, and they’re in Colorado. Why would we need to build a pipeline to CANADA to get beer made in Colorado down to the Oglala Aquifier? And if we did that, wouldn’t it then become the Oglala Alcofier?
