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Mr. Mossy, I used to teach history too. We seem to have gotten different lessons from history.
And back in the 1800's, people were saying if there were more horse cars, the predecessor to the motorized trolley, we'd be a yard deep in horse poop. Lucky we got motorized trolleys. Sometimes it's hard to sort out the truth from the alarmists.
Canadian income tax is 15% on the income trusts. You can get it back from Canada and pay the same rate in the US (for most people), or just claim it against US income tax. For most of us, it's a wash, so why bother filling out some Canadian forms? Canadians are our cousins and I don't mind investing there. It's family.
The enviro attorneys are suing the feds because the feds aren't obeying the law. That's why the enviro lawyers win so often. If the feds obeyed the law, no taxpayer money wasted.
As for ANWR, there isn't enough oil there to do much for a country like ours that consumes so much. I've been to the North Slope and it's a pretty amazing place and I'd hate to see more of it industrialized. We were so tired we didn't go all the way to Prudhoe Bay and maybe that was a good choice. Having seen the glaciers melting faster and faster all over Alaska and talked to Inuits in northern Canada who see how the climate has changed, I think global warming is a very real problem.
Let's all hope Minnie's Mate's son (or someone) solves this and really soon so I can afford to tow my Safari to Canada and Alaska and it's still cold there (and here too). I think we'd all like that.
Gene
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