Read an Excerpt from "Deal of the Century"
Introduction: A Letter to President Donald J. Trump
Dear President Trump,
You know about the Canadian oil sands, the immensely rich deposit of oil sitting just a few hours from the U.S. border.
You’ll recall you’ve talked in the past about how good they can be for America.
A few days before you became president in 2016 as you were preparing to approve the Keystone XL pipeline — which would have delivered nearly a million additional barrels of Canadian oil sands oil a day to the U.S. — you said you were “totally for it.” You said building the Keystone XL pipeline would mean “a lot of jobs” for Americans. You said, “I like a lot of oil flow.”
Here's something else you should know about the oil sands. They’re actually the North American oil sands. They might be physically located in Canada, but they’re just as much a part of America. The companies that operate in Alberta’s oil sands are either U.S. companies outright or they’re Canadian companies that have significant American ownership.