• Bieren@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Someone should tell the talking Cheeto that we are a net exporter on oil and the majority we import is from Canada and Mexico. You know, the whole thing of there being different types of oil and the refineries in the US are set to refine foreign oil and not our own oil.

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      13 hours ago

      “Who knew oil was so complicated?”

      Anytime he finds something out, “nobody knew”. Anytime he finds out he went too far, “no one knew it was this complicated”.

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        9 hours ago

        I assume this is referring to his “Who knew healthcare could be complicated” comment 8 years ago that we have yet to hear his plan for after promising one in two weeks

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          He said it pretty often in his first term. The commenter you replied to has it right. “Nobody knew…” translates directly to “I just found out”

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      Sort of. As I understand it, theres a pretty specific weight/grade/thickness of oil that can be refined into products. Most of the US oil is too thin. Most Canada oil is too thick. So we mix the two and viola!

      It’d be nice if someone in Canada would build a refinery here. But then we’d have to import thin oil to mix with.

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      Don’t worry, Alberta’s premier already has her head so far up Trump’s ass that she will never allow a retaliatory tariff on oil. I’m calling now that if the federal government pushes it through anyway, then Alberta will immediately try to leave Canada and join the US.

      We’re gonna be fucked either way because the country will tear itself apart over a response while getting economically strangled.

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        Trump is considering not taxing oil but it would be very funny if Canada decided to tax the all oil exports to the US as a fuck you to Trump…