GM Govt. Bailout?

[stuffy]

i know that your opinions are framed around your libertairian beliefs, some i share and some i don't.

i think it's perfectly logical for a government to charge royalties for the resources extracted from the land.
it's just the price of doing business as far as i'm concerned and i disagree with the notion that resources have no owner.
the tar sands are more subject to the market prices as you've mentioned than royalties anyway.
royalties and jobs from oil have made alberta (and by alberta i mean it's citizens) one of the richest regions in n america and even with a lower oil price and slowdown in worldwide economy, they havent' been affected nearly to the same degree that manufacturing-dependent ontario has been.
the alberta government has cut cheques for every citizen of alberta because of the huge government surpluses so just about all boats have been floated in alberta thanks to the resources in that province.