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The lengths that the UCP will go to in order to subsidize oil is absolutely unbelievable.
The return on this decision is pennies on the dollar for oil, but every penny counts I guess.
Nothing says "freedom from government overreach" more than a ban on investing in and building renewable energy infrastructure.
Future article:
Alberta to add hydrocarbons to school lunch menus
Lawmakers in Edmonton announced today that with the further declines in sales of Alberta tar sands products, the government will be directly purchasing hydrocarbons for consumption in school lunch programs. In speaking to reports today Premier Jones said "Our students need energy to learn in school, right? What better way to power our students than with the same energy our grandparents used in the past to power their cars? Oil! It seems obvious now that its in front of us. By putting oil directly into food for our students we 'cut out the middle man' and save Alberta taxpayers money while continuing our longstanding tradition of subsidizing the tar sands we all love. There's really no downside when you think about it!" /s
Is this how Alberta treats fracking for oil as well?
Oil derricks and rigs look beautiful to conservatives, they would gladly have their vistas dotted with them. But looking at wind turbines makes them mad. If you ever want to see a conservative smile, just whisper "more money" in their ears. It's a magic universal turn on for them, even crossing or not crossing as it were, gender boundaries. And you know how important those are otherwise to them, well at least in public. Behind closed doors they are exactly as likely as everyone else to be LGBTQ.
Destroying the environment permanently so can look at it for five extra minutes...