Vancouver is a lovely place with lovely people. I have been there several times for work. It just doesn’t appeal to me though. There’s amazing shopping and eating..... but I always found it difficult to find something to do when the workday is over (I am not a shopaholic and I can cook my own delicious meals -…

Sad!.

Yeah, Vancouver has amazing.......

What’s a “Fulbright”? Did you study luminosity?

Leading edge flaps(slats?) are cool.

Yeah, sorry. That was an asshole comment I made earlier. Us Canadians should not fight over where/what is cold. I mean, it’s fine if we’re talking to an American (*except alaskans), but no hoser on hoser hate.

Sudbury? Oh, life’s rough at the 46th parallel eh?

I change cars every 300k or so. Oil doesn’t freeze solid. May become less viscous, that’s why I don’t use a heavy weight to begin with.

Yeah, fair point. I do warm up my car or truck before putting the offspring in it. I also lock the door if it’s running without me in it.

Right? Hell that’s only -7c. I routinely “get in and go”(modern FI engine needs only a minute or so to warm at those temps)when it’s -25.

It’s not a public issue, that still won’t prevent people from wanting to know how he’s doing.

They hype it up a lot. Those roads are checked by professionals regularly.... but it’s still a touch nerve-wracking when you can hear and feel the ice cracking and shifting.

driven 18 ton heavy machinery across frozen lakes. It’s not unsafe if you know what you’re doing.

Maybe if people voted more with their wallets, we could have nicer things by now, but the reality is that people will always find the path of least resistance.

You know what else raises COGs? Regulation and taxation. Are you in favour of a command economy?

What does profit have to do with anything? You realize subsidies take place during exploration and drilling primarily, right? After that point, royalties kick in (name one industry that pays more in royalties). Make exploration and drilling difficult, and they move to another country and ship oil to the USA - just…

How does that look though? ExxonMobil is an international company. If the USA went this route, ExxonMobil would just increase operations in kazakhstan, nigeria, russia, etc. Of course they would not abandon the USA, they would just produce less over time. The only way to really force them to do what you want would…

I might be having a hard time understanding, just to clarify - Subsidy should come at a price? Generalizing.... “We will give you 20 million in tax breaks if you put 10 million into research” (in a nutshell)? Sorta thing?

I’m not sure how things work in the USA, but isn’t most / all energy infrastructure privately funded as-is? And to your point about R&D, don’t large fossil fuel companies also have alternative power sources like wind, hydro, solar in production as well as things like cogeneration?

Edify me then.