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As an American, fuck this guy.

Can we leave him with his broken foot in the engine and under hood while I start the car?

that metaphor assumes that these tariffs are going to hurt america more than it hurts canada...

i'm pretty sure we're the foot in your analogy. we're getting fucked

They think they will continue to earn sales when things go up. I've already stopped buying anything but food, so honestly...I don't care. Everything can skyrocket 300% and I wouldn't give a flying fuck

In my mind, it's time to teach ALL companies a lesson and stop consuming. I mean full stop, but literally nothing. Kill them financially. I know this won't happen because the majority of smooth brained idiots who can't help but buy dumb shit over and over

Which corporations will use as covert to jack up all their prices and not lower them when fuel prices go back down.

Being that we cut regulations over and over the number of refineries to oil in the U.S. decreased drastically over the years. It is why we had shortages while having loads of crude oil laying around. A quick search shows that building a refinery takes 3-5 years. So unless we can use the refineries we have to produce the fuel we need, we may hit years of higher prices. (Our lifting costs are much higher)

What makes you think it’s supposed to help anyone? This is them speed running tearing the US down to the nails and selling it off for pennies to themselves.

He’s hoping he’ll hurt us (Canada) enough that suddenly his offer to “save” us by becoming a US territory is appealing. Any sort of fentanyl or national security reasoning is just an excuse.

I don't know if it'll do much from a policy standpoint -- I doubt that Canada is simply not pulling easy-to-pull levers related to fentanyl. Also, he didn't aim to negotiate, but just said that he'd impose tariffs, and didn't announce concrete goals. But it might benefit him politically.

I imagine that a lot of his domestic agenda is not going to be all that popular with a lot of people who voted for him. If people are talking about him taking extreme actions aimed at dealing with fentanyl -- an issue of widespread political concern -- that's probably preferable.

All AB has ever wanted is scaled access to global markets. Canada gets hosed on oil prices because the US is the only meaningful importer and they know we can't move it to other markets. They'll always be in the prime negotiation position as long as they're the only material customer.

Canada (as a federal unit) has pretty desperately been trying to allow itself to trade oil on the global stage, but the infrastructure to allow that just isn't there. To get meaningful quantities to Canadian ports required pipelines through to the west coast, and that was politically unpalatable to the people living there.

Really sucks that Canada just plainly didn't build the infrastructure to expand to global markets. Most intercontinental trade of Canadian petroleum is via Florida. It'd be great if Canada could flood the European and Asian markets to kneecap Russias war machine funding. But the infrastructure isn't there.

That's exactly what they want and what all this is about. America has access to all the oil it needs but there are too many pesky laws and environmental exclusion zones. This will create a "shortage" so they will need to start up new drilling operations in the gulf, in Alaska, fracking, national parks, any other shit they got cooked up. We can become a net exporter in the short term so these ghouls can get richer quickly and they will have all their money and it will be someone else's problem to fix