31 Replies to “If only….”

  1. Dear Mr. Musk:

    Could you come up with some Star Trek type of transporter machine which we can use to get oil out of the ground without having to drill for it or build pipelines to ship it? I have to put up with a bunch of ignorant hillbillies in a certain part of my country who insist that the oil below their feet actually belongs to them and that they have a right to profit from selling it.

    I need it so that the most important part of my country can come along at any time, steal it, sell it, and make lots of money from it, while it still sucks money out of the pockets from those same hillbilllies.

    Can you have one ready to go before October of next year as I have an election coming up.

    Yours in fellow magnificance,

    Justin Trudeau

    P. S. Can you design it so that it uses a quantum computer? I know all about that sort of thing and I could use that to demonstrate to people in that next election that I’m really really smart.

    2. … The Post Script had me …you had the quantum computing ‘coined’ a few weeks back ! Heh heh heh, kicking …

      Why …B A you’re a barrel of laughs today!

      Do let us all know when and where your stand up comedy routine is going down.

      1. Thanks.

        I know that I saw a video of him being Mr. Quantum Computing and I’m sure someone else came up with that tag or its equivalent, so I don’t think I can claim credit for that.

        When I was teaching at a certain post-secondary institution, I had a reputation of being a bit of an office joker. On a number of occasions, I’d lampoon either an institutional policy or one of my colleagues by writing a phony newspaper article about them. (Yup, I produced my share of fake news!) I’d lay it out and format it to look as if it actually did come from a newsrag and, on one occasion, a colleague actually thought that one of my “articles” was genuine. The fact that the date was April 1 somehow escaped his notice.

        The result was that there were a few chuckles around the office area. I, obviously, never claimed credit for my handiwork, but everyone suspected that I was responsible as I was the only one sufficiently demented to produce it.

        I knew I finally reached my peak when one of my targets asked for a copy to show to his wife, taking that request as a compliment.

        Usually, the ideas came to me in a flash and they wrote themselves, so I didn’t spend a lot of time on them. I might have polished them a bit before posting them in the lunch room but that was about it.

        You can well imagine what my students had to put up with during my lectures…..

    3. This is all way over my pay grade.
      I’m never gonna get past “Rethinking concepts such as Time and Space”.
      Sure hope I’m not late for supper……

    4. p.s. Elon,
      I would be delighted to consult on the design and selection of the gender-sensitive and culturally-enhancing garments worn by “teammates” who deploy and monitor the quantum computing oil-extraction and delivery system I’ve requested. All fabrics must, of course, be meat, hide and potato free.

      Intersectionally yours,

      Justin Trudeau

    5. Replying to the Honorable J.T. Within a generation there will be no need for oil. All forms of transportation will be powered by electricity produced by solar. Mr. Musk has been working on one form and Dr. Who has been using another for quite some time now. There will be but two modes of transportation…Tesla and Tardis.

    6. I doff my chapeau to Roaddog and Valmore Buckland. Clever!

  2. A fantastic presentation in Calgary this last week by Vivian Krause. 400 seat theatre at the main library downtown.
    I estimate 350 people in attendance. Unfortunately the full presentation is not available, but I took screenshots of a lot of the slides with my camera (around 80 slides). She used US tax returns to track some key US players. The Tides Foundation alone made 400 payments totallying $35 million USD to try to land-lock Alberta (and Saskatchewan) oil through “The Tar Sands Campaign”. $16 million in spending in 26 ridings helped LeadNow and OPEN organization to “help” to move the attitudinal needle enough in Canada to get Trudeau elected (presumably with the goal of weakening Canada’s government, though that wasn’t explicitly stated).

    https://www.canadaaction.ca/vivian_krause

    My main take-away is that it is within the US interest, long term, to keep the oilsands undeveloped as a strategic US reserve and that the foundations that are using Environmentalists to achieve this goal are acting in what they think is the best interests of the USA. The environmentalists are being useful idiots, but that’s not news to anyone who pays attention.

    I had to stay late at work because of my extra-long lunch break, but it was well worth it to see her presentation! (lightly edited 2 minutes after main post).

    1. Not in the least surprising. The myopic self-righteousness of the eco-twats serving the long game of the US military is brilliant and ironic as they are probably virulent anti-Americans as well.

    2. I have long known that US interests were behind the campaign to keep the oilsands land locked. In 2005 I had a conversation with a senior environmentalist leader based in BC, but born in the USA. They told me they would try to shut in the tarsands. They knew this would never happen but they were going to block tidewater access, so Canadian oil had one market – the USA.

      I said the US would benefit greatly – they’d get cheap oil (too much oil chasing too little export pipeline space). This person just smiled.

      Why would the “environmental president” block the Keystone pipeline? So US interests make more money off Canadian Oil.

    3. I wanted to attend, despite knowing the general content of Vivian Krause’s presentation but decided against it in the event that there was heavy security. If I may ask, were you patted down by a Security Team?

      I once went to a rally held by the Press and that was the case. It didn’t bother me as it was all very professionally done. I had a pat-down from a female and she also checked my tiny cross-body purse. It was good to see that everyone was patted down. The crowd was legit and there were no surprises.

      The presentation was interrupted by some loud trolls though, they were quietly dealt with by security. Despite all this, it was worth attending, and the session was quite informative, even witty, btw this was in Calgary as well.

      So if you have a moment, I’m curious about whether this was the case with the session you attended? I’m wondering what to expect in the future, here.

      Thanks,
      Nancy

      1. No, no overt security nor any type of pass. No trollish interruptions. She ran late, so there was no time for questions so the only “interruptions” were people yelling questions about how to support Vivian and whether a copy of the presentation could be made available.

        It wasn’t widely promoted, just emails and an advance sign-in at CanadaAction.ca for the invite list. I would estimate the average age of attendees as 50.

  3. Ah, but Warren Buffett owns those tank cars, so the oil they contain is no problem for the environmental watermelons.

    1. So long as there is no pipeline, safer and cheaper, but then Uncle Warren donates to the greens alot.

    2. You beat me to it. This will be just a small tick on his bottom line. The major media will ignore it, not like the months long denigrating the oil sands in the ducks in the tailings pond incident.

  4. Do you think that ANYONE on the Left who protested the pipelines will accept ANY responsibility for this? If not, will they even connect the dots?

    1. Hmm….I’m thinking ‘No’ for the first part, and um ‘No’ for the second.

  5. Not a bad article from that leftist wannabe paper. Unhappy it happened. Happy it was Brand X operating and not one of my holdings. In my family, pipelines are revenue diversions. That changed with the Keystone where politics trumped practicality.

    1. I own shares in Enbridge and TransCanada. Ever since Prince Fancy Socks became PM, their value has dropped. So much for building the economy from the–what part of the anatomy was it?–outwards.

      1. Cry me a river. I was a stock holder in Uranium One. My stock didn’t drop. I was forced out by the Clinton Cartel.
        I got pennies on the dollar.

        1. I’ve had stuff like that happen to me, too. I invested in a certain mining stock (no, it wasn’t Bre-X) but, after I bought it, government regulations in the province where the operation was located ensured that project would be scuttled. My wardrobe was diminished accordingly.

          1. Province? Mine was nearly scuttled by the EPA with a false study and now trades at 5% of its former glory.

  6. …and the old farmer said, “That’s a hell of a way to run a railroad.”

  7. This past Tuesday in Saskatoon I was caught at a level crossing at Preston Street for 35 minutes as what seemed to be a 1000 car tanker train rumbled by. The traffic was backed up onto Circle Drive. All of that oil should have been moved by pipeline!

  9. One thing positive about oil. It floats on water. In a rapidly flowing river, that can cause problems. The ”arl” (Louisianna term for oil”) can however be retrieved. Can anyone recall the name of the floating candles that Esso sold back in the early 70’s?? They utilized vegetable oil. You would fill a glass of water up the 3/4 mark, add about an inch on cooking oil, and they’d burn for quite a while.

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