Barrel of Monkeys now worth more than a barrel of Alberta oil
fill those barrels full of plastic monkeys!
fill those barrels full of plastic monkeys!
I always scratch my head with this type of stuff. I was born and raised in Vancouver, spent a significant portion of my career in Alberta and now live half the year in Alberta and the other half in Vancouver. Growing up when BC struggled with things like the pulp/paper industries basically collapsing, the fishing industries going through booms and busts and the forestry industries taking it on the chin by US softwood lumber duties - I don't ever recall average Albertans celebrating how BC industries are suffering economically. It's only when I'm back in Vancouver do I see/hear, dare I say "glee" when they hear about Alberta taking it on the chin due to low oil prices. Obviously it's not all Vancouverites, but certainly it's enough where it is definitely noticeable.Barrel of Monkeys now worth more than a barrel of Alberta oil
fill those barrels full of plastic monkeys!
I have noticed that mindset.I grew up in Alberta and have lived in Chilliwack/Abbottsford/Mission/North Vancouver and Williams Lake when I lived in BC.I moved back to Calgary in 1998 just when the economy was on a slight simmer.I always scratch my head with this type of stuff. I was born and raised in Vancouver, spent a significant portion of my career in Alberta and now live half the year in Alberta and the other half in Vancouver. Growing up when BC struggled with things like the pulp/paper industries basically collapsing, the fishing industries going through booms and busts and the forestry industries taking it on the chin by US softwood lumber duties - I don't ever recall average Albertans celebrating how BC industries are suffering economically. It's only when I'm back in Vancouver do I see/hear, dare I say "glee" when they hear about Alberta taking it on the chin due to low oil prices. Obviously it's not all Vancouverites, but certainly it's enough where it is definitely noticeable.
Perhaps I'm over-thinking and your post was a simple attempt at humor.
Nobody from Alberta cares what you think.what isn't appreciated from Alberta is the constant push to keep things just as they are! its never ending! big oil good, any other ideas bad! big oil distorts economies and politics. its done so in Canada and its doubly done so at the focus point, Alberta.
no, i've pointed out repeatedly here how Alberta's distorted view of the world means that there is no room for any kind of change, no need to put money away for a rainy day, no need to diversify the economy... like all Albertans are somehow in love with boom and bust. like thats a good thing! and so they got Jason, who immediately dropped any funding for the tech sector and any other diversification! because conservative politics in Alberta is just another name for big oil. and big oil wants to keep themselves as the only game in town.
and now it seems Canada is going to have to bail out what is supposed to be the richest province in the country!? are you shitting me? where is all that big oil money that got made? oh right, it got funneled out of the country!
so now that Alberta oil is worthless... do you think that Albertans might think this?
As the world oil price plunges, it's time for Alberta to think outside the oilpatch
over the dead bodies of big oil and the PCP!
i'm not asking them to care what i think. i'm asking them to think for themselves instead of being herded around like a bunch of cattle by "separatists", "conservatives" and "big oil"! so much for fucking hating "socialism"... since Alberta will surely have their hands as deep into the rest of Canadas pockets now!Nobody from Alberta cares what you think.
Nobody from Alberta cares to hear what you have to say.i'm not asking them to care what i think. i'm asking them to think for themselves instead of being herded around like a bunch of cattle by "separatists", "conservatives" and "big oil"! so much for fucking hating "socialism"... since Alberta will surely have their hands as deep into the rest of Canadas pockets now!
yeah, i know. got no good argument... just keep quiet. must be pretty damaging to be banging on about equalization payments forever and then... you needing them and all.Nobody from Alberta cares to hear what you have to say.
Cattle are a lot harder to herd around than you think....being herded around like a bunch of cattle...
Sheep are easier to herd. All it takes is a well trained Border Collie.Cattle are a lot harder to herd around than you think.
Yeah or maybe Alberta should have the right to turn off the taps literally and physically.As the late Mr Klein said "let them freeze in the dark".Maybe the Alberta haters should stop using the gasoline, diesel and jet fuel that comes from Alberta, that allows the lower mainland to get around. The dog rider and the douche from Mars in particular. Just sayin.
They probably just ride around on their bicycles anyway, don’t use much gas.Maybe the Alberta haters should stop using the gasoline, diesel and jet fuel that comes from Alberta, that allows the lower mainland to get around. The dog rider and the douche from Mars in particular. Just sayin.
Refining is done by catalytic cracking and distillation either atmospheric or vacuum distillation although the term fractionation is sometimes used. Back in the old days Mobil was known as the socony-vacuum oil company.Maybe pavement will be cheaper... you know the stuff all our roads are made from.
The amount of hydrocarbons in the bitumen is high, fracking it produces the gasoline, diesel and jet fuel
More like a simpleton’s attempt at humour. The OP probably doesn’t understand how many petroleum products went into manufacturing the device he is using to spew his simplistic economic ideasPerhaps I'm over-thinking and your post was a simple attempt at humor.
Waiting line to have all of the equalization money Alberta oil has paid into the have not Provinces over the years returned? That’s now a “handout”? You enviro-morons are truly blind to economic reality.Mars, I think maybe your 'barrel of monkeys' hit too close to home with Albertans like MasterB acting like personified Kikazarus - not wanting to hear the hard truth about their beloved worthless tar, while standing in line for that socialist bailout from Trudeau.
Maybe they should employ Albertans for $2000 a month to properly start cleaning up the mess of all those orphaned wells in their province and at least get some value for that handout.