{"id":712,"date":"2006-01-11T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-11T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=712"},"modified":"2006-01-11T13:31:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-11T13:31:00","slug":"private-oil-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2006\/01\/11\/private-oil-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Oil Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alberta’s oil sands<\/a> are predicted to be the next major oil source in the world. And it’s in the private sector.<\/p>\n

Compare this with Norway’s off-shore oil. Norway has been building it’s national infrastructure for years with oil revenues and is one of the most prosperous places to live in the world. And they share their money too through foreign relief and development. They have much better universal health care than Canada has. They have free education right up to doctoral studies. Even the welfare program pays higher than minimum wage! (at least it did back in 1997 when I was there) <\/p>\n

So, what is Canada going to do about it. It’s going to tax it. Of course, it will tax it at a lower rate than other corporations because that way we (I mean the private investors) will be able to get the oil out faster. We aren’t going to foster a healthy working atmosphere in the sector either. We’re going to let many of the workers languish in drug and alcohol addiction and let their marriages fall apart. Oh, and my favorite part – we’re going to sell the oil to the USA at their set price because they won’t let us sell it to anyone else. If we do try, we’ll get labled communists and they’ll try to kill our Prime Minister (see Venezuela<\/a>). Oh, wait, they might not attack us because we’re predominantly white.<\/p>\n

We should just start using other energy sources anyway. Less politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alberta’s oil sands are predicted to be the next major oil source in the world. And it’s in the private sector. Compare this with Norway’s off-shore oil. Norway has been building it’s national infrastructure for years with oil revenues and is one of the most prosperous places to live in the world. And they share … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-712","6":"format-standard","7":"category-canadiana","8":"category-guatemala","9":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}