My question isn't changing. Why would we use tax money to fund faster oil sands development, export our oil to the United States more quickly and thus exhaust our resources more quickly? What's the point, when, to develop our economy and reduce our dependence on oil, we could invest that same money in a host of industries that are much more in need of tax incentives?
Why spend money in that way? I think I know the answer. It's because a lot of financial interests are at stake and because people don't want to lose the privileges. Why should we, as a society, help the oil industry rather than the renewable energy, bicycle, textile or aeronautics industries? Why should we as a society make such an irrational choice?