Correct John. 

Numbers do not lie.

Here's a few numbers. 83. 95. 100.

Million of barrels that is. As in the global demand for oil in 2008, 2016 and projected in 2020. 

Here's some more.  7.9.12.

Billions of people that is. The global population today, and projected in 2050 and 2100. All needing things. All needing energy.

Renewables will be a part of that. And, in the absence of a new energy technology that beats fossil fuels in terms of price, portability and energy density, oil and gas will continue to as well.

But for some reason the renewables need to push this zero sum agenda, whereby it is necessary to bludgeon the Canadian oil and gas industry for the renewables industry to make it.

Which makes it curious why Canada is such a laggard, when our neighbor to the south, without a carbon tax or hostility to the oil and gas industry, is ahead of us by leaps and bounds: in their eyes, let the best solution win.

Indeed, numbers do not lie. But the Canadian Green Lobbyists do.