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@ Douglas Moran
Mr. Moran decided to threaten the north with this:
"You don't want to ship your water south? That's okay. We can stop allowing oil to be shipped and trans-shipped from Houston up the Missouri-Pacific. How do you reckon on living out those cold winters without that oil? Or what about all those goods flowing through our ports and up our railways and carried by our trucks?"
The largest foreign supplier of oil and petroleum to the United States is... Canada. I think the north will do just fine without your southern oil.
I think that Canada even has some of those ports, railways and trucks you mentioned. I'm sure they would be happy to take the jobs from the southern states and distribute cheap Asian goods through Vancouver and Montreal. In fact, if global warming continues to open up the Northwest Passage Canada will probably possess the shortest shipping routes in the world.
However, one thing's for damn sure, Canada will not give you their water.