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Update: It Appears that the Post Changed the headline from “Canada’s Oil Sands Earn Big but at High Cost” to its present form, “Canada Pays Environmentally for U.S. Oil Thirst” as noted on Technorati. But there is no bias at the post, right?

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I knew it was too good to be true when I saw John Stossel’s report on the abundance of oil in the Canadian sand-tar pits. The obstructionist left has launched their latest anti-U.S. crusade at yet another source of oil that might very well reduce our dependence off of the Middle East.

Take note of the Washington Post article, Canada Pays Environmentally for U.S. Oil Thirst.

Huge mines here turning tarry sand into cash for Canada and oil for the United States are taking an unexpectedly high environmental toll, sucking water from rivers and natural gas from wells and producing large amounts of gases linked to global warming.

The digging — into an area the size of Maryland and Virginia combined — has proliferated at gold-rush speed, spurred by high oil prices, new technology and an unquenched U.S. thirst for the fuel

Yup, that’s right, it’s official, the Kosification of the left has completed its weed like growth into the wacko WAPO. There we are again, front and center, the bad boys of the world. The evil U.S. empire.

My main problem with environmentalists boils down to their anti-U.S. rhetoric as a method used to energize their base; that and the fact that they are hypocrites.

Everybody wants a pristine environment contrary to the portrayal. But you must separate reality from fantasy when considering this debate. The world we live in is fueled by energy. It is that plain and simple. From the ipods that sit on your heads to the DVD’s that fund the Hollywood left, energy, based primarily on oil, is the catalyst that keeps it all going.

But that doesn’t defer the left from attacking the rest of us Americans as if they are not complicit in the use of fossil based fuels. Worse, they seem to target the United States regardless of the efforts we put into our standards; because they don’t agree with the standard. For instance, the left is quick to take issue and attack the United States for the evils of global warming yet they are willing to give China and India a pass on the Kyoto treaty. Should we assume that China meets the same emission standards as the U.S.?

You should also note that China has taken an active interest in Canada’s oil reserves. Thus it will be an issue even if the United States is not the main consumer.

I also find it interesting that the writers at the Post failed to take note of Canada’s other exports. Canada exports over half its coal production to Asia (57%), with the rest going chiefly to Europe and Latin America. Canada also imports thermal coal from the U.S. for making steel, another process that is sure to damage the environment in some way. Where’s the outrage?

Overall the environmentalist movement is burdened by ancillary anti-U.S. and anti capitalist sentiment that diminishes the stated goal of their cause. For them to be successful we must fail. This simply will not do.

You should also be interested to note the placement of the ad for the Al-Gore Global Warning movie, An Inconvenient Truth, that frames this and many other articles in the Washington Post (see image at left). I believe that the timing is not as much of a coincidence as it is a by-product of the self loathing scare mongering that energizes the crazy base of the left.

First off, the phrase “Al Gore” is becoming synonymous with con job. The guy has reached the status of Michael Moore. We will be certain to see Hollywood nominate this movie for an Academy Award in the “false documentary but who cares as long as it furthers my political agenda” award of crapulence.

I wonder how much oil is necessary to mass produce those DVD’s and fuel those movie screens and TV’s. Hmm, it’s kind of a perplexing hypocritical paradox. But, as the left says, I digress

I would recommend that the rational thinkers cut back on the use of oil and oil byproducts to help the left out. Think of how much energy we could save if everyone simply tuned them out. Unfortunately anti-U.S. sentiment spreads like wild fire if the flames are left to smolder; they are too dangerous to ignore.

The anti-U.S. venom that spews from the left should be something of alarm. The rhetoric goes beyond the liberal pie in the sky utopian fantasy because its intent is something more dangerous. Their goal is to change world wide policy by vilifying the U.S. in international opinion. The terrorists couldn’t have a better ally.

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