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Kasz216 on 08 December 2009
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famousringo said:
Kasz216 said:
famousringo said:
Absolutely.

Despite the fact that the United States has certain colonial designs for Canada, they are a crucial military ally and as good a neighbour as you can hope for in a superpower. Furthermore, you can bet that any army willing to take on 300 million heavily armed Americans isn't going to blink at the idea of taking vast natural resources out of the hands of 30 million not-so-heavily armed Canadians.

Liberating the United States wouldn't just be the moral thing to do, it would be the prudent thing to do.

The US has colonial designs for Canada?

 

Of course. The US already has preferential access to our energy resources, and it's currently angling for preferential access to our water resources.

Don't get me wrong, the US is a tremendously valuable ally and we're getting a fair price on our resources, at least for now. But what do you suppose would happen if in 2030 Canada decided that China offered a better deal for oil, uranium, and fresh water? What would an America dangerously thirsty for water and energy do if Canada didn't want to sell it to them anymore?

Everything is fine as long as the resources keep flowing to the motherland. I don't really blame the US for wanting to maintain access to key resources, but I also don't think Canada will ever really have a choice as to who it sells to, or even whether we sell or not. There's a word for small satellite states who are locked into a trading agreement with a major world power.

Scenario seems unlikely honestly.

I'm confused as to why we're angling for water resources.  I mean,  we do own pretty much "half" the lakes between us... when it comes to world Water reserves, the US is third... only slightly behind Austalia and Canada.  The US has more then enough water to take care of the rest of the country currently.  It's just the states don't like to share with each other.

 

As for energy.  What would America do?  I'd imagine, ration and use more expensive alternative methods.  It's not like alternative methods aren't out there.  People just don't want to use them because they cost money economically.

Just as an example.  You can currently buy something that makes your Oil cars run on Natural Gas. 

Which the US is actually like 6th in the world in proven reserves.  We could cut out Oil and run everything on natural gas if we needed to.  We just don't because of the transition costs.

If we ran out of oil we should be fine.... and if we really shouldn't be in a situation where the country would run out of water either.  If importation stopped the government would just force the water rich states to sell at reasonable rates to the water poor states rather then hoard or use for other things.