Acorn Politics in Action!

A new riding summer is upon us, a year has passed and nothing has changed. I had hoped that we would have seen some dynamic change in our political scope. It would have been good to see more opposition seats for the Alberta conservatives to deal with, but alas, the good old provincial PC party has us in their grip. Don’t get me wrong, I have always swayed to the right but I would have like to see some balance.

They say there are two camps of thinking in politics. On one side there is the right, and the
other the wrong.

That’s not very fair, but the latest news regarding our oil sands situation makes one stand back and drop their heads.

Back in January (2008) the United States passed energy legislation that prohibits federal vehicles from using fuels derived from dirty oil. Dirty oil of course is not oil with lumps in it, its oil that is deemed dirty because of the CO2 emissions as a result of production.

The problem is that the US Federal government doesn’t have their own fuel pumps; they buy
their fuel from the regular pump jockeys. So, any fuel going into the US must be clean. Do
you see what I see?

The only oil source that has recently been slapped by our favorite pet dog KYOTO is crude oil produced in Alberta in the tar sands projects located at Fort McMurray, Alberta and actively produced by SunCore and SynCrude.

That very money pit that has driven our economy for the past 20 years to where we are
paying nhouse values have reached nearly half a million dollars for a bungalow in Edmonton, Alberta, and has made the Edmonton-Calgary corridor the fastest growing economic zone in the world.

KYOTO barks and everyone jumps. Bad dog! Is tar sand oil production spewing so much CO2 into the air to keep the liberal awake at night? Is Alberta the big bad polluter everyone wants to believe?

The truth is that Canada is one of the lowest polluters in the developed world. The US, India
and China are passing more gas into the atmosphere then a bunch of rednecks eating peanuts and beer at a Grey Cup Football party.

No, the real threat is not our dirty oil; the real threat to the US is that they need to convince the sheep that a war in Iraq, and maybe Iran is needed. Yes, the big bad terrorist is the official reason to be there, but many of the power elite in the US has oil interests in the kingdom and they all know that possibly the ‘new’ oil kingdom could be Alberta.

Better use the fervor on Global Warming to ensure that we don’t buy Alberta oil. ‘If we can’t invade Canada to take the resources, lets just use fear created by ‘Acorn Politics’ to boycott Canada.’ When Chicken Little and Henny Penny had that Acorn fall on their head, the sky must have been falling, and they have been running around screaming global warming ever since. Are we experiencing Global Warming or Economic Cooling? Some say both, but the fact remains that there are a lot more scientists who slap down the anthropogenic global warming theory. Problem is that they are immediately labeled as Big Oil supporters or deniers There IS NO CONSENSUS ON ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING! Nobody even says what the "consensus" is on. It is, at best, a THEORY and a poor one at that. In short the earth is warming ever since that last ice age and it will keep warming, but whether that warming is man-made is just the ‘Acorn Politician’ using fear to effect change that they could not accomplish when the masses are happy.

If you want to spoil the economic balance of any operation you have to panic the masses. It’s much like killing the profits of a hatchery, walk into the chicken coop, and yell, ‘Howdy Girls’ at the top of your lungs, after the feathers fly, most of the eggs produced are spoiled.

The truth is that temperature measurements in the ocean over the past five years have shown that the oceans are cooling slightly, and atmospheric global average temperatures for the past 10 years have slightly dropped .555C. This is data that has been tabulated, but pop culture would rather be told that the end is near rather than just sit back and enjoy the weather. This nonsense is what’s allowing powers like the U.S. to use the barking KYOTO to pass laws that are going to hurt you and I economically. The only way out of this is to slap sense into the masses and not spoil our eggs.

I was proud of the Harper government (Canadian) when they took a cool stance on KYOTO, but after pressure from the liberal media, it looks like they are beginning to look more weak minded on the subject. Then there is steady the Alberta Premier, Eddie Stelmach, he surprised us when just last week he stood up and announced that if the US don’t want our ‘dirty’ oil we will sell it elsewhere. You might think that’s a hollow threat, but the likes of China would love our oil, and we have been producing this oil at a rate of up to 1.1 million barrels a day. Is Alberta the new kingdom, mmm maybe!

In any light, it’s a new year, we are dealing with the same crap, the more things change the more they remain the same.