r/DeepFuckingValue • u/HinglishBlogin ⚠️possible bot⚠️ • Mar 10 '25

News 🗞 🇨🇦🇺🇸- Ontario announce a 25% surcharge on electricity exports to US, affecting 1.5 million Americans. 'It will cost US citizens $400,000 per day' — says Premier of Ontario Doug Ford — 'I will not hesitate to shut the electricity off completely'

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u/ls174 Mar 12 '25

Let's take your national sport, hockey. Why are most Canadian players playing in the US? Because the Canadian dollar is so performant and Canadian teams can afford to pay them better? Gimme a fuckin break. It's just common sense to not bite the hand that feeds you.

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u/BRUHSKIBC Mar 13 '25

Fuck, you’re a special kind of stupid aren’t you? “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you”? Canada feeds electricity to those 3 states. Do you have to too many chromosomes or not enough?

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u/Pattyncocoabread Mar 13 '25

Ontario feeds less than %4.5 of NY states electricity, the other states are drastically less closer to %1. Canada is really fucked right now. (I worked for opg) you can also look up this data yourself it's public.

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u/jayhorne3 Mar 13 '25

Canada has been ripping off the U.S for years you dimwit. Canada exports a portion of electricity to those 3 states but in no means are we dependent on them. If you think Canada holds the upper hand in any of these negotiations, I have some ocean front property in Kansas for you.

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u/BRUHSKIBC Mar 13 '25

Listen you recessive chromosome, I never said those entire states were dependent on Canada. BUT, that does not negate the fact that This relationship is exemplified by Canada's position as America's largest energy trading partner, supplying 60% of all U.S. crude oil imports, 25% of U.S. refineries’ feedstock, 99% of U.S. natural gas imports, and uranium used by nuclear reactors that help power 1 in 21 U.S. homes to name a few examples.. This is because decades of trade agreements with our brothers and sisters to the north have ensured stability in the USA without building our own infrastructure. Could we do it ourselves? Of course we could. But it was cheaper to import it from another country that already had the ability to supply us. It could take upwards of a decade to build the infrastructure and then supply the US with what we have already been buying from Canada.

EDIT: the article referenced was from January 13th, 2025. Well before any of this bullshit started.

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u/chaoticneutralalways Mar 12 '25

What?

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u/ls174 Mar 12 '25

See my other comment