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Re: CC Random thread
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2026 5:08 pm
by Meds
Cornuck wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2026 4:30 pm
5thhorseman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2026 4:25 pm
You'd be paying about double for your iPhone if we made them in Canada.
Not sure Mëds was talking about iPhones - but rather more critical, essential products.
Yeah, absolutely not talking about luxuries.
I'll put this out there though.....
Imagine if the petroleum we have in Canada, was refined in Canada, and sold in Canada, and exported with a focus on a sovereign wealth fund (and include other resources in that) similar to Norway's but maybe not to the same "socialistic" extent.
Then imagine if our farming and agricultural sectors were properly supported and not regulated into oblivion, but rather providing more than enough for the nation and actually booming to the point of having export that results in trade benefits.
If our lumber industry was properly regulated and managed to support our needs and then export as well.
Same for mining and minerals
This should realistically result in much lower gas prices.
That results in lower domestic distribution costs.
Which combines with the ag and softwood lumber (and other resources) sectors to greatly reduce food and housing costs.
All of those things would also trickle down to reducing overhead costs in other sectors, like healthcare and education for example.
A focus like this generates domestic profits, and while perhaps some of those numbers are reduced from now, the export market more than makes up for it. In theory this mean that the average median household income actually goes up. Your dollar value climbs. Your citizen's spending power increases.
So an iPhone costs double because it's made here? Ok. So you spend $2K on a phone, but your spend $4K less on other things throughout the year.
My post is rudimentary in it's delivery, but you get what I'm saying.
Re: CC Random thread
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2026 7:33 pm
by 5thhorseman
Cornuck wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2026 4:30 pm
5thhorseman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2026 4:25 pm
You'd be paying about double for your iPhone if we made them in Canada.
Not sure Mëds was talking about iPhones - but rather more critical, essential products.
Most people would rather go without TP than their iPhone. So tell me which one is essential?
Re: CC Random thread
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2026 7:49 pm
by Meds
5thhorseman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2026 7:33 pm
Cornuck wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2026 4:30 pm
5thhorseman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2026 4:25 pm
You'd be paying about double for your iPhone if we made them in Canada.
Not sure Mëds was talking about iPhones - but rather more critical, essential products.
Most people would rather go without TP than their iPhone. So tell me which one is essential?
Shit. That’s true.
Maybe install a bidet as a long term investment in TP savings…..
Re: CC Random thread
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2026 7:49 pm
by 5thhorseman
Oil companies don't want to spend billions to build refineries in Canada when it's cheaper to send to existing refineries in the US.
And they don't want to sell gas cheap in Canada when they can get more on the world markets.
So how do you propose to effect these changes without a whole lot of government meddling in the free market economy?
Re: CC Random thread
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2026 7:53 pm
by Megaterio Llamas
‘Food security timebomb’: a visual guide to the Gulf fertiliser blockade
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/ ... r-blockade
Re: CC Random thread
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2026 7:57 pm
by Megaterio Llamas
5thhorseman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2026 7:49 pm
Oil companies don't want to spend billions to build refineries in Canada when it's cheaper to send to existing refineries in the US.
And they don't want to sell gas cheap in Canada when they can get more on the world markets.
So how do you propose to effect these changes without a whole lot of government meddling in the free market economy?
Yeah, it's not as if we're a hermit kingdom.
We're about as integrated into the world economy as it gets.
Re: CC Random thread
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2026 8:05 pm
by Topper
5thhorseman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2026 7:49 pm
Oil companies don't want to spend billions to build refineries in Canada when it's cheaper to send to existing refineries in the US.
And they don't want to sell gas cheap in Canada when they can get more on the world markets.
So how do you propose to effect these changes without a whole lot of government meddling in the free market economy?
Christmas time in Jamaica one year the Island ran out of Red Stripe where the price is fixed. Some Hollywood blockbuster feature Red Stripe making it instantly popular in the US.
D&G did what any business would do. They shipped their inventory and production runs to the market that gave them the best price.
Re: CC Random thread
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2026 8:14 pm
by 2Fingers
You would think with all shit coming out of Washington they would have enough for a few years.
Re: CC Random thread
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2026 8:31 pm
by Megaterio Llamas
2Fingers wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2026 8:14 pm
You would think with all shit coming out of Washington they would have enough for a few years.
lol Reef.
Re: CC Random thread
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2026 10:42 am
by Cornuck
A full-scale recreation of the Titanic made with around 1,000 drones went viral after lighting up the sky over Belfast,
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DW1ziaLhCRX
Re: CC Random thread
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2026 9:10 am
by donlever
Cool.
What a world.
To bad all this shit we have access to gets used for so much...well...shit..
Re: CC Random thread
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2026 10:02 am
by 5thhorseman
Yeah we should be seeing drones used by Amazon so I can get my shit faster. Where the fuck is my 1 hour delivery!
Re: CC Random thread
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2026 10:05 am
by Per
Mëds wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2026 5:08 pm
Cornuck wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2026 4:30 pm
5thhorseman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2026 4:25 pm
You'd be paying about double for your iPhone if we made them in Canada.
Not sure Mëds was talking about iPhones - but rather more critical, essential products.
Yeah, absolutely not talking about luxuries.
I'll put this out there though.....
Imagine if the petroleum we have in Canada, was refined in Canada, and sold in Canada, and exported with a focus on a sovereign wealth fund (and include other resources in that) similar to Norway's but maybe not to the same "socialistic" extent.
Then imagine if our farming and agricultural sectors were properly supported and not regulated into oblivion, but rather providing more than enough for the nation and actually booming to the point of having export that results in trade benefits.
If our lumber industry was properly regulated and managed to support our needs and then export as well.
Same for mining and minerals
This should realistically result in much lower gas prices.
That results in lower domestic distribution costs.
Which combines with the ag and softwood lumber (and other resources) sectors to greatly reduce food and housing costs.
All of those things would also trickle down to reducing overhead costs in other sectors, like healthcare and education for example.
A focus like this generates domestic profits, and while perhaps some of those numbers are reduced from now, the export market more than makes up for it. In theory this mean that the average median household income actually goes up. Your dollar value climbs. Your citizen's spending power increases.
So an iPhone costs double because it's made here? Ok. So you spend $2K on a phone, but your spend $4K less on other things throughout the year.
My post is rudimentary in it's delivery, but you get what I'm saying.
I get what you are saying.
You want the government to control and regulate the oil industry, mining, lumber, agriculture et cetera and have strict quotas and regulations on imports and exports.
So…. You’re a commie?
Didn’t see that coming.
Re: CC Random thread
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2026 11:42 am
by Meds
If that’s what you took from my post you’re not as smart as you want us to think.
Re: CC Random thread
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2026 12:47 pm
by Topper
The petroleum industry has always been controlled, either internally by government coercion or externally by government bodies back to the Texas Railroad Commission. Weirdly at times when companies were coerced to co-operate with each other they were at the same time being prosecuted for restrictive trade practices.
The main issue with the petroleum industry has always been managing over supply to maintain prices and once international supply took precedence, competing government revenue expectations. Then add in, as we are currently seeing, geopolitical supply chains.