Pipelines and Protests

Who can object to a utopian dream where we live in a world with far less pollution?
Who would object to developing renewable energy technologies--especially at a price that can compete with current market rates.

People who tend to be supporters of renewable energy are probably unaware that even after 100s of billions in grants and loan guaranties, virtually every North American and European company has gone bankrupt this past year. China has produced at a price point, no one else in the world could. There are no green jobs here any more... they have disappeared here and reappeared there.

We are in this place today, despite every altruism where we need hydrocarbons for our very survival, that is a fact. So until such time as we bear down on cold fusion as an energy source, this is the way of it. Canada's synthetic crude is a premium product and will eventually be treated that way.

Unfortunately, even if 90% of all Canadians want to build a pipeline to the West Coast, there will be people lying before bull-dozers all the way across BC. I propose we simultaneously build a pipe-line to the McKenzie delta, so we can build a city there to export via the NW passage. Choosing between which pipeline would be too confusing for the dope-smoking protestors. One way or the other Canada wins.