Fill'er Up!

by Arthur Caldicott
Watershed Sentinel
September-October 2006

Actually, the entire industrialized world is addicted to oil. And those countries that aren’t yet fully wired on the fossil fuel junk, like China and India, are getting hooked fast.

Addicts of oil will apparently do just about anything for a fix. Few commodities — perhaps even including tobacco, alcohol and heroin — have such inelastic demand. “Gotta have it.”

Canada and Iraq, in quite different ways, are in the throes of historical change which derive from a common situation — the global and particularly the US need for oil. Both countries sit on a phenomenal amount of oil — we’re number two and four respectively after Saudi Arabia. One country is under an unwelcome military assault and occupation. The other is willfully engorging on a capital assault, and a corporate occupation.

Both will contribute significantly to enriching US oil corporations and to ensuring that the US gets its fix.

Download the full article on the pipelines proposed to take the Tar Sands Oil from Canada to the United States and China. This version is now expanded from that printed in the Sept/Oct 2006 Watershed Sentinel.
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