On 16-Feb-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:

Nah, we'll just drill more wells here. Canada will suffer far more than the
US from a border closing.

If you could increase domestic oil production in the US by 10% of your
total consumption, it would already have been done. That would be in
excess of 25% of current US production. That is an enormous amount
of oil and the value to the domestic oil industry would be tremendous.

There is also no way you could replace the electricity you import
without a lot of time and enormous expenditures.

Nothing we can't do without.

Raw materials and manufactured parts for US industry? For a
start, closing the border would shut down GM, Ford and D/C's
car plants. When the border was backed up after 9/11, Michigan
Congressmen were the first to complain.

I know you'd like to think Canada is essential to the success of the US, but
it's not.

The problem is that you are completely ignorant of the interconnectedness
of the US with the rest of the world in general and Canada in particular.
If the US could survive on its own, it would. It can't - it has become
much too dependent on imports. The US has been spearheading free trade
pacts for decades. Get your head out of your ass and look at the real
world.

Mike