• Mechanize@feddit.it
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    “Look, Mexico and Canada have never been good to us on trade,” he continued. “They’ve treated us very unfairly on trade, and we will be able to make that up very quickly because we don’t need the products that they have.”

    Hahahahaha…oh god, comedy heaven!

    …Wait, what do you mean this is not the onion?

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      “We don’t need the products that they have but we might not tax oil coming from Canada… Because… We… Eeeh… Don’t need it?”

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      Someone should tell the talking Cheeto that we are a net exporter on oil and the majority we import is from Canada and Mexico. You know, the whole thing of there being different types of oil and the refineries in the US are set to refine foreign oil and not our own oil.

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        Sort of. As I understand it, theres a pretty specific weight/grade/thickness of oil that can be refined into products. Most of the US oil is too thin. Most Canada oil is too thick. So we mix the two and viola!

        It’d be nice if someone in Canada would build a refinery here. But then we’d have to import thin oil to mix with.

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        “Who knew oil was so complicated?”

        Anytime he finds something out, “nobody knew”. Anytime he finds out he went too far, “no one knew it was this complicated”.

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          I assume this is referring to his “Who knew healthcare could be complicated” comment 8 years ago that we have yet to hear his plan for after promising one in two weeks

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        Don’t worry, Alberta’s premier already has her head so far up Trump’s ass that she will never allow a retaliatory tariff on oil. I’m calling now that if the federal government pushes it through anyway, then Alberta will immediately try to leave Canada and join the US.

        We’re gonna be fucked either way because the country will tear itself apart over a response while getting economically strangled.

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          Trump is considering not taxing oil but it would be very funny if Canada decided to tax the all oil exports to the US as a fuck you to Trump…

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      The Agreement between the United States of America, Mexico, and Canada (USMCA) was entered into force on July, 1, 2020, under the USMCA Implementation Act, H.R. 5430; Public Law 116-113. It replaces the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) which was in force from January 1, 1994 to June 30, 2020.

      Hmm who was president in 2020?

      https://www.cbp.gov/trade/priority-issues/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements/USMCA/FAQs

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        I know, it’s crazy how his supporters don’t put two and two together. HE MADE THE TRADE DEAL HE’S SUPPOSEDLY GETTING SHAFTED ON!