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2010 Jul 23, 4:31pm
It is true that productizing the oil sands are and will be an immense ecological catastrophe.
But it's your land so if you want to f--- it up for ~$10T of our cold, hard cash, good luck with that.
Of course, all that gunk is only 5 years or so of supply, less if we don't build nukes up there to assist in the reprocessing.
All that carbon release is going to be a doozy if Al Gore is correct on this anthropogenic global warming thing.
Domestically, it would behoove the US to reduce oil imports. We get a helluva lot of insolation each year, precious little is tapped. Sun beats oil, but oil is easy and sun is hard.
The stupid thing is that there's an unimaginably immense energy reserve literally under all our feet. The sun could go out tomorrow and we'd still have enough energy to survive, if we were smart enough to be able to economically tap the Earth's extant geothermal power.
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2010 Jul 25, 4:02am
It is true that productizing the oil sands are and will be an immense ecological catastrophe.
But it’s your land so if you want to f— it up for ~$10T of our cold, hard cash, good luck with that.
Of course, all that gunk is only 5 years or so of supply, less if we don’t build nukes up there to assist in the reprocessing.
All that carbon release is going to be a doozy if Al Gore is correct on this anthropogenic global warming thing.
Domestically, it would behoove the US to reduce oil imports. We get a helluva lot of insolation each year, precious little is tapped. Sun beats oil, but oil is easy and sun is hard.
The stupid thing is that there’s an unimaginably immense energy reserve literally under all our feet. The sun could go out tomorrow and we’d still have enough energy to survive, if we were smart enough to be able to economically tap the Earth’s extant geothermal power.
It's nice to know you Greenies are based in sound science and a profound understanding of how Stars and their planetary system react with each other. Especially after the star expands burning the three inner orbit planets to a toasty crisp. Then collapses on its self taking all of the planets in under the immense weight of the gravity. Before exploding a final time dispersing our solar system's matter back into the Cosmos.
tatupu70
2010 Jul 25, 5:08am
It’s nice to know you Greenies are based in sound science and a profound understanding of how Stars and their planetary system react with each other. Especially after the star expands burning the three inner orbit planets to a toasty crisp. Then collapses on its self taking all of the planets in under the immense weight of the gravity. Before exploding a final time dispersing our solar system’s matter back into the Cosmos
I really need to find out who your supplier is... You must be getting some good sh#$
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I have just heard of a southern California environmentalist group that has apparently taken out billboards in the U.S. urging americans to boycot Alberta Canada tourism wise on the basis that our oil sands mining is a catasrophe comparable to the BP spill. Now, have any of you seen these ads yet, or billboards, and if you did what would you think? It plays very indignant like here in the Alberta media like how dare they, they should look after their own disgrace in the gulf, how we have 7 percent unempolyment, alot better than Cali`s 13, and how Canada is a friendly, secure energy partner, much better do do business with that the middle east, south america, etc. So thoughts, thoughts on Canada US relations in general, the oil sands(sometimes refered to as the tar sands), the North american culture of big powerful cars and trucks, future energy policy, and the like. Full disclosure, I was born in upstate New York, but grew up in Alberta, and I`m fond of both.
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