Oil sands cheerleader Levant: Slurs ‘R’ Us

The U.S. Department of Defense is the world’s leading consumer of petroleum, sucking up about 340,000 barrels of oil every day, more than the total national consumption of Sweden or Switzerland.

The Pentagon is the single largest institutional buyer of oil in the world, consuming an estimated 85 percent of the U.S. Government’s use of oil.

Canada is the largest supplier of oil and refined products to the U.S. at over two million barrels a day, nearly half of which comes from the oil sands.

Stelmach has been busy lately with his advertising campaign to persuade the world that Alberta’s oil sands are clean and secure. Here’s a jingle suggestion for you, Ed: “Supplying jet fuel to the U.S. military to bomb Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq — it’s what we do best.”

Last Thursday, future Sun TV luminary Ezra Levant was on Alberta Prime Time touting his book Ethical Oil, in which he argues that the oil sands are a superior ethical choice to using oil from human rights violating countries. The other guest was the remarkably unflappable Mike Hudema from Greenpeace, who wasn’t buying Ezra’s bizarre moral equivalency. It needn’t be a false choice between two bad options, said Mike, at which point Ezra, who had introduced the country comparisons in the first place, accused Mike of equating Canada with Sudan.

Apparently undeterred at the prospect of being sued for libel by George Soros for misrepresenting Soros’s Holocaust childhood in his Sun editorial “George Schwartz, the Jewish Nazi,” Ezrant continued:

“Goddamn coward … you’re a liar, a disgusting man … bullshitter … a con man … a crook … you little coward … you bastard.”

You can watch it here if you must. Personally I can hardly wait for further arguments in support of the superior ethics of the tarsands from Ezra when Fox News North hits the airwaves.