Reply #32: We get most of Canada's oil. [View All]

[joshcryer]

They're our biggest oil importer.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html

http://www.gravmag.com/oil.html

They produce between (2002-2004 stats) 1.9 to 2.8 million barrels per day, we get 1.6 million barrels per day (2006). They have a lot of vehicles. Iran doesn't. We export gasoline back to Canada.

The point is that Canada is living in the western world thus has higher levels of consumption, you are using what is commonly referred to as a "straw man" to "debunk" my position, without addressing the specific points.

I'm on you guys' side with regards to Cuba at least partially (I acknowledge that Cuba has been the target of a lot of terrorist activity by the US, and that it is a fairly democratic state). But I do not take kindly to any third world countries with vast, absolutely vast oil supplies, and any social problems relating to economics that occur in those countries. The middle eastern countries are the only countries in the world who are fully capable of becoming economically self sufficient. Given Iran's social incliantions you'd think they'd be for that, but in the end the state of Iran merely wants to maintain its power.

Stop with the weak strawman. Nuclear is significantly costlier than fossil, and anyone arguing this point is simply deluding themselves. Relatively poor countries with vast fossil resources focusing on nuclear do not have the peoples well being in mind.