Hydro-Quebec and Northeast Heating Oil

Maybe we can't make the United States entirely energy independent, but we certainly should be able to do it for North America as a whole. Canadians have lots of extra energy, from the tar sands in Alberta to trillions of gallons of water flowing downhill in northern Quebec and Labrador. These are people we can deal with. They don't flog rape victims, for example.

We should make a deal with Hydro-Quebec, the provincial electric power utility. We have people who need to be heated up during the winter, and Hydro's electricity could do that. Hundreds of thousands of Quebeckers are freezing their asses every winter, and we have Florida. There's a deal here to be made. It still leaves open what the Northeast would do to earn its part of the arrangement, maybe sending lots of lobsters to Florida. Anyway, it makes more sense than buying more petroleum products from Venezuela.