If you took 9th grade science you would know that bitumen is a form of crude oil and then you wouldn’t have written this pretentious post making a point based purely in semantics.
We actually do upgrade it to syncrude in Alberta, and some all the way to fuel. Getting it out of the ground, when it’s semi-frozen into sand, is also no small feat.
You can shit on Alberta for a lot of things, but “bad at chemistry” isn’t one of them.
Not as much as they need the oil. Like, trade is always a symbiosis, but their sensitivity to loss on that one specific good is higher. Kind of like our sensitivity on auto parts or steel is higher.
When we sell ninety percent of our oil to the states, we actually kind of need them too.
We don’t sell oil, we sell a bitumen sludge that needs to be refined in Texas because no one in Alberta went past grade 9 science class.
These tariffs chicaned around potash, oil, aluminum, because they need that.
If you took 9th grade science you would know that bitumen is a form of crude oil and then you wouldn’t have written this pretentious post making a point based purely in semantics.
Also, the bitumen is too thick to flow through pipes, if you tried to just ship it like that.
We actually do upgrade it to syncrude in Alberta, and some all the way to fuel. Getting it out of the ground, when it’s semi-frozen into sand, is also no small feat.
You can shit on Alberta for a lot of things, but “bad at chemistry” isn’t one of them.
Not as much as they need the oil. Like, trade is always a symbiosis, but their sensitivity to loss on that one specific good is higher. Kind of like our sensitivity on auto parts or steel is higher.
It’s an elasticity thing.