17-04-2002 01:37									#61
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quote: Originally posted by DinoDoc Alberta Pros: - More oil than Saudi Arabia

	17-04-2002 02:53									#62
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Its the tar sands. There's more crude in those sands that all of Saudi Arabia. Of course extracting it is kinda expensive but....

	17-04-2002 02:58									#63
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Saudi Arabia is quoted as having 260 thousand million barrels of proved oil reserves.
Canada is quoted as having 6 thousand million barrels of proved oil reserves.

I wouldn't mind knowing generally how much oil Alberta is supposed to have.

	17-04-2002 06:48									#64
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Alberta has 260 billion barrels of proven reserves. The rest of Canada has negative 254 billion barrels of proven reserves.

260 + -254 = 6

Seriously, Canada, Mexico, and the US are already incredibly interrelated. Canada and Mexico currently need the US for trading, and the US gets a great deal of resources and trade from Canada and Mexico. Perhaps, in the future, the 3 countries will unite, and form some greater union.

Canadian money is not the equivalent to Monopoly money. 100 Canadian dollars will buy you 18 Monopoly dollars, a Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free card, and the race-car.

Steele

	17-04-2002 06:50									#65
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quote: Perhaps, in the future, the 3 countries will unite, and form some greater union

Not if I can prevent it. Thanks, but no thanks on the offer to lose all traces of our heritage in the American melting pot...

	17-04-2002 07:18									#66
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http://www.energy.gov.ab.ca/com/Sands/default.htm
http://www.energy.gov.ab.ca/com/San...n/Oil+Sands.htm

The oil sands alone in Alberta, which are now being tapped into, have over 1.6 trillion barrels of bitumen, which (using current technology) means 311.3 billion barrels, which is more of all of Saudi Arabia's entire supply of 260 billion. And the oil sands are only 40% of the oil supply in Alberta, known so far (they're always looking for even more).

Development has just started recently in the oil sands, and it'll be a while before huge production starts of oil from there.

	17-04-2002 07:25									#67
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quote: Originally posted by steelehc Perhaps, in the future, the 3 countries will unite, and form some greater union.

Give us time! We need to find a suitable pretext to conquer them first before talk of integration can begin.

	17-04-2002 07:25									#68
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quote: Originally posted by KrazyHorse quote: Perhaps, in the future, the 3 countries will unite, and form some greater union Not if I can prevent it. Thanks, but no thanks on the offer to lose all traces of our heritage in the American melting pot...

Are you somehow saying that that hasn't already happened? Besides, America is a Mosaic of multi-ethnicities!

	17-04-2002 07:34									#69
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America is a melting pot, Canada is a mosaic.

There's a difference.

	17-04-2002 07:41									#70
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quote: Originally posted by Asher America is a melting pot, Canada is a mosaic. There's a difference.

We ain't no stinking Melting Pot!

You see ethnicities self-segregating all over the place!

	17-04-2002 07:43									#71
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It's not nearly at the same level as what it's like in Canada, though.

At least that's what I've heard and seen with my own eyes, living in both countries.

I see far more people who don't hestitate to wear turbans or cloth-on-the-head for girls (I don't know what it's called) in Canada than I ever did in the States.

In the US there's far more drive to fit in, and to persue the American Dream.

	17-04-2002 07:54									#72
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quote: Originally posted by Asher It's not nearly at the same level as what it's like in Canada, though. At least that's what I've heard and seen with my own eyes, living in both countries. I see far more people who don't hestitate to wear turbans or cloth-on-the-head for girls (I don't know what it's called) in Canada than I ever did in the States. In the US there's far more drive to fit in, and to persue the American Dream.

Besides in cultural enclaves like SF and NYC's China town, Miami's Little Havanna, and All of the Southwest??

	17-04-2002 07:56									#73
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Chinatown is nothing special, most cities have that.

You don't seem to understand, but I'm talking about how all of these cultures are mostly spread out and in most areas in Canada, where they don't feel the need to live in "cultural enclaves" as they do in the States.

	17-04-2002 08:03									#74
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It largely has happened in practicality, but not officialy. Thats what I am referring to.

Steele

	17-04-2002 09:34									#75
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oil sands are not proven reserves

	17-04-2002 10:33									#76
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quote: Originally posted by KrazyHorse Thanks, but no thanks on the offer to lose all traces of our heritage in the American melting pot...

You have a heritage?

	17-04-2002 13:29									#77
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quote: Originally posted by KrazyHorse quote: Perhaps, in the future, the 3 countries will unite, and form some greater union Not if I can prevent it. Thanks, but no thanks on the offer to lose all traces of our heritage in the American melting pot...

Surrender to the melting pot.

Come on in, the slag is warm!

After your chemical bonds are a bit more relaxed Tammy here will give you a nice firm hammering, and a stir.

[i](Enter Tammy, a huge bleach-blonde woman with even bigger hair and a Harley tatoo)

"Don't be afraid little Kitty. We'll have you washing down pork rinds with Miller in no time! If you play your cards right I might even show you the scars from my breast enhancement surgery."

	17-04-2002 23:08									#78
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quote: And the oil sands are only 40% of the oil supply in Alberta, known so far (they're always looking for even more).

How can you make a claim that they have found only 40% of what is there to be found? Surely you only know how much is there when you have found it all. I presume rather that you mean that current production, which is reserves irrelevant, accounts for 40%.

The whole thing is interesting. Canada will be the home of the next "Gulf war", when the European Rapid Reaction force has to assist in liberating Alberta from the US invasion force.

	17-04-2002 23:15									#79
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quote: Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin The whole thing is interesting. Canada will be the home of the next "Gulf war", when the European Rapid Reaction force has to assist in liberating Alberta from the US invasion force.

Why fight for oil that we control through NAFTA?

The Canucks don't need oil anyway. I mean, how much gas do snowmobiles actually use?

	17-04-2002 23:30									#80
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quote: Originally posted by Asher Development has just started recently in the oil sands, and it'll be a while before huge production starts of oil from there.

You mean the environmental clean up operation is only just underway?.

	18-04-2002 01:09									#81
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quote: Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin quote: And the oil sands are only 40% of the oil supply in Alberta, known so far (they're always looking for even more). How can you make a claim that they have found only 40% of what is there to be found? Surely you only know how much is there when you have found it all. I presume rather that you mean that current production, which is reserves irrelevant, accounts for 40%.

40% of the reserves known so far are in the oil sands, which alone have more than Saudi Arabia. That was my point. There's one oil field in particular, Athabasca, that has more than Saudi itself.

quote: You mean the environmental clean up operation is only just underway?.

Alberta is known for its environmental-friendly techniques with oil. Calgary, the oil capital of Canada, has recently been rated as the cleanest major city in the world. The equipment used in Alberta is all fairly new and modern, so it's very efficient.

	19-04-2002 22:36									#82
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Kallingrad:

Pros:
On Baltic

Cons:
Polluted
1million Russians
Lots of new desiease
High Price Tag

	19-04-2002 23:31									#83
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The entire Caribean Island chain.

this country is getting crowded and Americans will need vacation spots OWNED by us where we will feel safe from bombs and bullets and big planes and people with diapers and towels on their heads and so-on.

Israelis can come vacation there too(well pay for the Islands, in part, with Israeli tourist's cash).

cons- really, REALLY,expensive

	20-04-2002 01:51									#84
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Forget adding things, I say that we get rid of California . By the way, the U.S. is no longer refered to as a "cultural melting pot". It is reffered to as a "cultural tossed salad." Pun intended? Anyway, I would take Alberta, Yukon, and Northwest Territories.

BTW: Canadians are indeed a separate nationality with a unique identity. Everyone knows that they are the friendly nation of flannel wearing, mullett sporting, hockey watching socialists, directly north of the U.S. However, nine out of ten Americans think that its capital is Toronto, and the rest think that it is Montreal. No one has ever heard of Ottowa.

	20-04-2002 01:52									#85
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quote: Originally posted by nationalist No one has ever heard of Ottowa.

Is that why you can't spell it right?

	20-04-2002 01:55									#86
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quote: Originally posted by KrazyHorse Is that why you can't spell it right?

I was hoping that someone would get that joke

	20-04-2002 02:34									#87
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quote: Originally posted by nationalist . BTW: Canadians are indeed a separate nationality with a unique identity. Everyone knows that they are the friendly nation of flannel wearing, mullett sporting, hockey watching socialists,

Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the upper pennisula fall into that defination as well...

	20-04-2002 06:38									#88
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If Canadians and Americans are so similar, why isn't it the Americans who are Canadian?

	20-04-2002 09:33									#89
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I always thought that Canada's history is less ugly than the history of United States when it comes to race and ethnicity.

Or am I wrong, and is that just an ignorant presumption??

	20-04-2002 09:39									#90
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We like to pat ourselves on the backs for that one. As true as any generalisation like that can be, but there's enough racism in this continent's history to go around.

BTW, Canada also pulled that internment bullshit on Japanese-Canadians in WWII, and until 1830 there were slaves on the streets of Montreal and Halifax...