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Neil Youngs diesel powered tour bus.
Neil Young, the ’60s-era folk singer and drug lifestyle icon, has come to Canada to lecture us about the oilsands.
Young was born in Canada, but left us to make it big in Los Angeles. Environmentalists know that’s North America’s smoggiest city, a city that runs on conflict oil imported from Saudi Arabia.
Young jetted here to wag his finger at us.
And to have a series of Blame Canada concerts attacking the oilsands and all those who work in it.
Like any concert, Young’s requires an enormous number of staff and equipment.
They drive a diesel-powered bus from town to town.
Young is a multi-millionaire telling us that we can’t have well-paying oil and gas jobs.
His net worth is estimated to be $65 million.
He’s not a one-percenter.
He’s a one percenter of the one-percenters.
So he can waste enormous sums of money on goofy schemes, like his custommade “Lincvolt,” a remade antique Lincoln with two motors in it: A regular combustion engine, plus an electric engine.
Of course it’s just for show — he’s an important man, and doesn’t have time to drive across the continent.
He jets.
His Lincvolt is an attempt at reducing his carbon footprint.
But one night it added quite a bit of carbon to the atmosphere.
In 2010, while the contraption was charging one day, it caught fire, and caused more than $500,000 damage to the warehouse it was parked in.
But that was the good kind of carbon, right? No normal person can live like Young — 40 years of drug and alcohol abuse, plus goofy hobbies that cause massive fires. He’s got enough money to cover up his own contradictions and hypocrisies.
But not all the money in the world can hide the fact that Young has never protested against the world’s largest oil companies — like Saudi Aramco, or Venezuela’s PDVSA. Young doesn’t protest against dictatorship oil, conflict oil, terrorist oil or union-busting oil.
If you’re against oilsands oil, by process of elimination, you’re for OPEC oil.
He does all of his anti-jobs rocking in the free world. He saves his rage for Canada’s ethical oil. Just like his copropagandist, David Suzuki, who shared a stage with him in Toronto on the weekend.
So did Andrew Weaver, a Green Party politician from Victoria.
Funny thing about that.
When he was a professor, Weaver did a climate study.
If every single drop of oilsands oil were to be burned, he calculated — something that, at current rates of production, would take 250 years — the world’s average temperature would rise by a total of 0.03 degrees.
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As in, not even a rounding error.
As in, it wouldn’t have any measurable effect at all.
That’s what Professor Weaver calculated.
But Politician Weaver was happy to sit on stage with Young and Suzuki, bashing Canada.
Weaver sat in silence as Young said Fort McMurray looked worse than Hiroshima.
That’s not just objectively false, it’s anti-Canada slander from a foreigner.
Weaver sat there and smiled.
It’s true that open-pit oilsands mines look ugly, like any open-pit mines.
But unlike Young’s California, or Weaver and Suzuki’s B.C., in Alberta, oilsands mines must be fully reclaimed and replanted, as nearly 70 square kilometers already have been.
Young flat-out denied that was happening. Weaver and Suzuki didn’t dare contradict their low-information foreign friend — and certainly none of Young’s groupies did.
That is, Canada’s media party.
. They sure haven't shown it. Sure the Alberta Tar Sands are driving the economy but we as Canadians are being looked at quite poorly by all other nations of the world except China. This is my biggest concern. This is not the Canada that I grew up in. This Country is becoming something else. Need I say something close to us down South 
