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AlanfromBigEasy on August 11, 2006 - 1:48pm

It is more efficient (net transportation wise) to supply the Upper West (US) & Midwest from Alberta pipelines and Eastern Canada from the sea than vica versa. Look at a map.

New Orleans would like to barge more oil products up-river instead though.

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Oil CEO on August 11, 2006 - 4:21pm

Absolutely. So the next question is, why do we as intelligent individuals, as a society, allow The Powers That Be to manipulate the numbers so that things can always be something they are not.

We complain about transparency. It is time to clean up our own back yard.

Canada - (and my beef is not with Canada, it is with us) - Canada exports 840,000 bpd, not 1,840,000. Or, conversely, it does both. But we need a standard for reporting these numbers. Else the manipulators will run circles around us. They will use any number they want, whenever it suits their purposes.

Are we on the same team?

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