What Jason Kenney and Albertans can learn from Texas

[Taiga]

The question is why are these large companies attracted to Texas? I am willing to bet it has nothing to do with subsidies! My guess it is proximity to market combined with an affordable work force and low taxes. The author of this article apparently believes as most people on the left do that business needs government direction and government subsidy. It has been my experience that by the time government realizes there is an opportunity it has long passed!!!

They are attracted to Texas simply because the economics are so much more favourable. Refineries and export ports are close. Unlimited labour. Flowlines are literally on the surface of the ground, big pipe is buried. No winter. Way less regulation and no regulation that is designed to ensure a project will never pass. Frac sand is very close, lots of mines. Pressures are lower. Power is an issue but everything is still electrified. Wellsite and access road construction costs are minimal, just need a grader, versus a fleet of dozers and rock trucks. And on and on.

[jazz]

Do you know actual number that oil is susbsidized? There wouldn’t be an oil company here at all if it wasn’t for government consessions. So why not susbsidize things that are the future?

And there wouldn't be an ag industry here without crop insurance, or Bombardier etc .

Why single out oil? Did you have a bad experience or what?

The govt has no idea what the future is when they are locked in a 4 yr election cycle.

[the big wheel]

And there wouldn't be an ag industry here without crop insurance, or Bombardier etc .

Why single out oil? Did you have a bad experience or what?

The govt has no idea what the future is when they are locked in a 4 yr election cycle.

If your implying we are getting subsidized what oil is wow??????
What we provide to the country never mind the province is not valued only the buyers and Monsanto’s etc have the gov ear.

Bad experience with oil? Lmao. What was the price at the pumps when oil is tanked? What happens to our cost as a farmer when oil booms? The reason all the parts repairs nee etc have gone up is because of the oil industry paying anything stupid because they can to have rhe John Deere and others come out to
Them. Then we pay both ways for it at the pumps and at the dealer we need. So yes you be had a bad experience also but don’t want to admit it due to your blinded one sided political view.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

What Alberta can learn from Texas, is that when we separate from Canada, and become a state with equal representation, we will no longer have a federal government (regardless of party on either side of the border), wilfully destroying economic incentive. To compare any other factor when the federal politics and policies are so diametrically opposed is completely worthless.

Have you ever had an original thought of your own Chuck, you know, in your own words, or even a paraphrase of someone else's? Or just here to mindlessly pass along the official party propaganda?

[jazz]

Its weird to run into someone like BL who hates the patch. I mean oil leases and seismic and crop damages and all that are the reason our farm survived the 80s. I am sure there are thousands of farmers in the same boat and then a guy hates oil like that and somehow equates it to all his farming hardship, gives everything else a pass. Doesnt make sense.