This is what I don’t get about Alberta. They’ve always been talking about the oil sands and exploiting their resources, yet why are they always satisfied with simply pumping and piping? Why has there never been a voice for making local refineries so that they can jack up the prices of their tar sands? Why have they been satisfied being used like a third world country when they’re always being compared to Texas, that has most of the US’s refineries. Why are they happy feeding Texan refineries instead of selling refined products to the entire world at several times the current prices?
Hell, not only raising export prices, but adding a massive number of local jobs as well, instead of giving away such easy jobs to a foreign country? It’s not like you need an army of university graduates to operate a a refinery. Most of the jobs there only require a slightly higher level of education as for the tar sands.
This is what I don’t get about Alberta. They’ve always been talking about the oil sands and exploiting their resources, yet why are they always satisfied with simply pumping and piping? Why has there never been a voice for making local refineries so that they can jack up the prices of their tar sands? Why have they been satisfied being used like a third world country when they’re always being compared to Texas, that has most of the US’s refineries. Why are they happy feeding Texan refineries instead of selling refined products to the entire world at several times the current prices?
Hell, not only raising export prices, but adding a massive number of local jobs as well, instead of giving away such easy jobs to a foreign country? It’s not like you need an army of university graduates to operate a a refinery. Most of the jobs there only require a slightly higher level of education as for the tar sands.