THE COMMUNICATIONS, ENERGY AND PAPER WORKER’S UNION ESTIMATES THAT 18,000 CANADIAN JOBS ARE LOST FOR EVERY 400,000 BARRELS OF BITUMEN THAT ARE EXPORTED.

Whether or not you ride the bus is not the point; Canada's and the rest of the World's dependency is going to last for at the very minimum another fifty years, half a century. However it seems to ME AND MOST ANYONE ELSE THAT ACTUALLY GIVES PAUSE TO THINK; that the PRO-oil and gas, PRO-pipeline movement IS ROOTED IN A LACK OF LITERACY ABOUT OUR REFINED PETROLEUM SOURCES and how they affect our daily lives.
With the Canadian dollar still hovering around $ 0.75 and $ 0.80 US; ANY; Kinder Morgan,any, Trans Mountain, West to East, North to South, any pipe line running directly; or indirectly, as the case may be, into the USA; any MARKETING to the USA automatically means; never mind additional profit gouging by the Capitalist Elite in that country, MEANS A LOSS OF $0.50 on the dollar-we give away in Canadian dollars; then because we only refine 25% of what we use in this country; we buy back the finished, REFINED product in US dollars.
PIPELINE EXPANSION THAT WILL SHIP MORE ALBERTA OIL SANDS CRUDE TO U.S. GULF COAST REFINERIES.
ENBRIDGE'S NORTHERN GATEWAY PIPELINE WOULD MOVE ALBERTA OIL TO COASTAL B.C.--- FOR SHIPMENT TO ASIA.
THE COMMUNICATIONS, ENERGY AND PAPER WORKER’S UNION ESTIMATES THAT 18,000 CANADIAN JOBS ARE LOST FOR EVERY 400,000 BARRELS OF BITUMEN THAT ARE EXPORTED.
Go Figure???