Just when you think you have seen and heard it all something you can’t even imagine, the people of Alberta have had a moment of clarity, an epiphany you might say, and as a result the NDP would appear to have a chance at forming the next government in Texas North (Alberta).
Hell might freeze over, but there it is, after all the trickle down right-wing bullshit a little light at the end of the tunnel.
Typically when the People of Alberta get disgusted enough with their dismal right wing governments their usual answer is to just move further to the right, if that is even possible, maybe someone finally realized that Quote “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.” ― Albert Einstein“ might just be true.
It has been quite an long and costly 80 year experiment, since 1935 the right has been using and abusing the province and people of Alberta, are they really now open to try something else?
It might help to compare Alberta and Norway which have comparable populations and oil production, Alberta started it’s Heritage fund 15 years before Norway and has produced 18 percent more conventional crude and natural gas than Norway not even counting bitumen and Alberta has 17.2 billion in it’s Heritage fund while Norway has a cool trillion to show for it’s exported non-renewable resources, so even if oil were to cease being a cash cow tomorrow the people of Norway will have a huge cash cushion to ride out the fall, unlike Alberta which even when oil prices are up consistently runs a deficit, and any hiccup in oil prices brings the province into survival mode.
The obvious difference between the two countries is that in Canada the one percent get the money from our non-renewable resources and Canadians get to clean up the mess and live with the pollution and resulting health problems, but in Norway the Norwegian people get the money for their resources, maybe it is time for Albertans to take an alternative proven path instead of the failed economic model they have been following for 80 years and have something substantial to show for future resource extraction, unlike the 24 billion barrels of oil that has already been extracted from Alberta with not a whole lot to show for it except for pollution.
It is time for the people of Alberta and Canada to take a leap of reason and do the rational thing.
The truth is there is probably lot’s of oil left as it would appear that peak demand for oil has already occurred and as alternative energies take off and get cheaper by the day demand will shrink even more until oil will just be used for products that there is no replacement and there doesn’t seem to be many of those items.
PS May 6/2015 the voters of Alberta did the rational thing and voted for change which means the first NDP government, it is going to be interesting to see how this works out, you can bet the Federal CONS and the one percent will undoubtedly try to make this change of direction fail, keep tuned in it is going to be interesting.
