For now, however, it looks like the United States is losing a race that it has always led – the competition for Canadian energy resources (it's especially losing out to China, whose purchases of North-American energy resources include a stake in a Texas oil shale project). Interestingly, this is happening a few short years after the army of oil refineries along the Gulf Coast spent billions upgrading their facilities to process heavy oil in preparation for an onslaught of Canadian oil sands bitumen. If Asia beats out the US for access to Canadian oil, US refiners will be left paying a premium for heavy oil from other suppliers – not an ideal situation.

Interesting observation ... and if things get real bad for the US ... push will come to shove and the shove will be an invasion ... Canada's new allies might wish to help them but it is doubtful it will go nuclear and and a ground war woudl easily be one by the USSA ... which of course would a perhaps unwilling include Canada

When economics dictate the end of the friendship ... the friendship can go bitter very quickly in the real world.

orgy