Suggestion For Automakers

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Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar

I found Albertans to be friendly, but (in other Canadian provinces) I found a somewhat negative and ever so slightly envious attitude about Albertans from other Canadians.....

I am going to keep this brief .. and try not to piss off too many Canadians at the same time.

Let me just say that Alberta is considered the HAVE province and the other provinces know it. We don't have a sales tax (but we do gas our own cars unlike Oregon) and we have lots of oil resources so when **** hits the fan and the economy tanks we still have money in the bank.

Alberta is the only province with no debt .. and people from other provinces when they need a job make the trip to Alberta cause jobs are easy to come by here. In fact they are predicting a labour shortage in the years ahead. Even BC (one of our closest neighbors) is pissed at us as they want some of the billions of dollars from a planned pipeline which would go to the west coast.

The sharing of resource revenues is not normally done (and thus why Alberta is considered a rich province) and the rest of Canada is pretty much pissed as the Alberta government won't share with the other provinces when it comes to our wealth.

Oh yea .. re this thread. If people want a 50 MPG car .. they should just buy the Prius C. No problem getting 50 MPG in the city .... a friend of mine has one and it is a pretty nice car.