High gas prices are affecting Americans at the pump, in their homes, when they're buying their groceries, pretty much everywhere all the time.  Even scarier, grid operators have warned of the potential for blackouts due to hurried efforts to transition to renewable energy sources.  Utility regulators have also warned ½ of Americans are facing power blackouts this summer.

So before it gets any worse, wouldn't this be a good time for the U.S. to accept Alberta, Canada's offer to help with its energy crisis?

From Full Measure:

Alberta Oil

By Full Measure Staff Sunday, March 20th 2022

U.S. gas prices have hit record highs and are still climbing, especially since the U.S. cut off one of its suppliers: Russia. U.S. oil producers have complained for a year that the Biden administration hasn't made policy moves to encourage more production here at home, instead, lobbying foreign producers like Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. Similar complaints are coming from our oil-rich neighbors to the north in Canada. The province of Alberta, about the same size as Texas, is just as rich in energy resources. Lisa Fletcher reports on their unanswered offer to help.

An energy shock — the likes of which we haven't seen since the early 1970s.

A combination of rising prices, limited supply, and a sudden war, involving sanctions on major oil producer Russia, leaving the U.S. and other nations scrambling to meet demand.

In the Canadian province of Alberta lies one of the possible answers to America's energy needs: Canadian oil — and lots of it. Traditional pump jacks dot this landscape south of the city of Edmonton, but as you head north, an entirely different type of deposit is revealed: oil sands, extracted by giant shovels, scooping the earth and sand into trucks where they move it to crushers that process and prepare it for extraction.