Alberta offers U.S. safe haven in world of uncertain oil supply
At the height of the crisis earlier this month in Egypt, just a day before Hosni Mubarak succumbed to revolutionary pressures, a group of worried U.S. lawmakers met in a congressional office building just off Capitol Hill to seek answers to a seemingly intractable American problem.
What could be done, finally, to start weaning the United States off foreign oil?
Gary Mar, the Alberta government`s representative in Washington, sat at the witness table ready to offer a solution.
`Our oil comes from a politically stable and democratic neighbour and is sent to the U.S. via pipeline, so it is not affected by political unrest or other disruptions,` Mar told members of the House subcommittee on energy and power during the Feb. 10 hearing.
`I want you to feel confident that when the people who elect you go to a gas station to fill up on their way to soccer practice, or a baseball game, that they`re using a product that came from a friend ` a friend with similar goals and similar values.`
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