Oil and gas may be of varying importance to your daily lives, but to BC as a whole they are of immense importance.
Mines and smelters and saw-mills aren't running on wind power. Timber doesn't come down from the hills by bicycle. Groceries and supplies don't arrive in remote towns by bicycle. Tourists don't arrive by electric scooter. Tractors and other farm equipment aren't electric-powered. Our lumber and mining products and agricultural products aren't being delivered to customers by electric scooter.
That somebody in Vancouver can get to their office-job and work a typical day and come home to to a warm apartment without burning a drop of fossil fuel is very nice, but BC's largest industries-- forestry, mining, agriculture, tourism-- all depend on plentiful and affordable fossil fuel.
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