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Joshua Goldberg
Guest
Canada is 2nd to Russia in Oil reserves and under NAFTA the USA may take our oil (IF) the key
supplies to the USA are cut off re: Iraq. Canada can easily replace Iraq in oil production and guess
what...no huge Oil Tankers from the Arabian Sea to the U.S. mainland....just a pipeline from Alberta
to the central USA and pipe it E/W from there. Washington has always viewed Canada as the (backup)
if Mideast Diplomacy...even (from the barrel of a gun) fails. It has been the Mideastern OPEC
members who do NOT want to lose North America as their buyers. IF the USA switched 100% to Canadian
crude....everyone in the Mideast would revert to an economy akin to Sri Lanka...and they know & fear
that. Most of the Muslim Mideast view Iraq as a pain in the backside and no love will be lost if
Iraq collapses. Personally I'm surprised Iran hasn't used the opportunity to go in and hammer Iraq
and then America would be dealing with Iran for oil.
supplies to the USA are cut off re: Iraq. Canada can easily replace Iraq in oil production and guess
what...no huge Oil Tankers from the Arabian Sea to the U.S. mainland....just a pipeline from Alberta
to the central USA and pipe it E/W from there. Washington has always viewed Canada as the (backup)
if Mideast Diplomacy...even (from the barrel of a gun) fails. It has been the Mideastern OPEC
members who do NOT want to lose North America as their buyers. IF the USA switched 100% to Canadian
crude....everyone in the Mideast would revert to an economy akin to Sri Lanka...and they know & fear
that. Most of the Muslim Mideast view Iraq as a pain in the backside and no love will be lost if
Iraq collapses. Personally I'm surprised Iran hasn't used the opportunity to go in and hammer Iraq
and then America would be dealing with Iran for oil.