text: JDubs204
  
  But neither Trans Mountain nor energy east are about stopping Canada's (central and eastern) import of oil.  These pipelines are all about export - of product and of jobs.
  
  If Energy East HAD been about Canadians exploiting, refining and using our own oil in our own country, it would have been a popular project.  Largely though, the energy independence argument was used as propaganda and not reality - something like the Levant line of "ethical oil".  We're better stuff.  
  
  "Our" oil companies in Alberta are not even largely owned by Canadians but by Americans and off shore industries that set up head offices wherever they find it most convenient to avoid taxes.