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2011-11-03 Science & Technology

Canadian Oil Might Contaminate American Aquifers

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Posted by Bobby 2011-11-03 12:52|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Look for subtle money from nation's we currently import from to keep this oil off the market by supporting these "eco" groups.

Posted by Water Modem 2011-11-03 13:58|| 2011-11-03 13:58|| Front Page Top

#2 It will also cause fire and brimstone, plague and cats and dogs will live together.

Posted by DarthVader 2011-11-03 14:18|| 2011-11-03 14:18|| Front Page Top

#3 If only there were ways to keep oil and water from mixing.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-11-03 14:59|| 2011-11-03 14:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Canada was prepared for this. They knew how difficult the meany greenies would be. They have also a western pipeline to their west coast for export to build. The big thing is rail. Truck hauling also. Massive need for cars now. They can't build lines fast enough. China is purchasing everything they can get their hands on. Poorest quality we can't burn here is going there. We are opening old mines also because of selling the lower quality coal. One hub in our area is seeing 8 train coal cars a day about a mile long each. So the back up plan is rail or truck. We need the line but this is the back door. I may be wrong but I have heard mines are getting $240/ton for coal.

Posted by Dale 2011-11-03 15:53|| 2011-11-03 15:53|| Front Page Top

#5 I wanted to clear on this. Canada will have alternative methods to transport product to the states. It will cost more but the money is there.

Posted by Dale 2011-11-03 15:56|| 2011-11-03 15:56|| Front Page Top

#6 It'll certainly corrupt american morals.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-11-03 16:59|| 2011-11-03 16:59|| Front Page Top

#7 LOLs. Canadian experts are we? Frankly, why would Canada sell you dumb hillbillies anything...

Posted by Omomoth Hatfield1094 2011-11-03 18:59|| 2011-11-03 18:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Canada's plan B is to pipe oil to Vancouver where China will happily buy it and transport it via tankers.

Posted by Cincinnatus Chili 2011-11-03 20:17|| 2011-11-03 20:17|| Front Page Top

#9 I say we render the greenies down for fat and turn them candles we can sell to the Filthy Dirty Hippy 'Occu-squatters' as 'natural and recycled'.

And just think, as a candle, they will provide a valuable, productive part of society for the very first time in their lives.

Posted by Silentbrick - Halliburton Lost Drill Bit Division 2011-11-03 20:33|| 2011-11-03 20:33|| Front Page Top

#10 I thought someone would ask what are they doing with all that coal?. More than they need. Some is for steel. Then many other uses. A large amount is being buried. Maybe they are planning ahead. I know the states exporting it have a huge tax revenue at this time. Black gold rush days.

Posted by Dale 2011-11-03 20:46|| 2011-11-03 20:46|| Front Page Top

#11 I thought someone would ask what are they doing with all that coal? ...A large amount is being buried.

Did you perhaps mean to phrase that differently, Dale?

Posted by trailing wife 2011-11-03 21:06|| 2011-11-03 21:06|| Front Page Top

#12 Spill from Saudi oil can damage aquifers, too.....eh?

Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-11-03 21:13|| 2011-11-03 21:13|| Front Page Top

#13 I just heard Politico has a scoop that Canadian oil sand was sued for sexual harassment back in the 90s. I don't know about that big bad oil sand, just seems so dangerous.

Posted by rjschwarz 2011-11-03 21:23|| 2011-11-03 21:23|| Front Page Top

#14 TW, well yes. I just go on at times. My train of thought hits a few bumps now and then.

Posted by Dale 2011-11-03 21:42|| 2011-11-03 21:42|| Front Page Top

#15 LOLs. Canadian experts are we? Frankly, why would Canada sell you dumb hillbillies anything...

I'm not sure, but I think I might be a Yankee, Omomoth Hatfield1094 dear. It really is important to get these little insults correct, if you want them to bite. As for why my mother-in-law's people would want to sell their oil to their nearest neighbor, the economics are basic enough that even a little suburban housewife like me can grasp it: you see, it's ever so much more profitable to sell to a neighbor than someone farther away, shipping costs being so much lower. And of course, the product is so much fresher due to shorter transport time, which avoids all sorts of problems. Oil is much like the fruits and vegetables at farmers markets when one thinks about the essence of the things, or so I'm told.

Or if you prefer, we could talk of the present value of money, squeezing out excess costs by smoothing the production curve, even EBITDA if you insist.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-11-03 21:47|| 2011-11-03 21:47|| Front Page Top

#16 Or if you prefer, we could talk of the present value of money,...

Heh. Whenever the 'mere housewife' idiom is unleashed, someone is in for a beatdown; ever so dainty and lady-like, but a beatdown nevertheless.

Posted by SteveS 2011-11-03 23:07|| 2011-11-03 23:07|| Front Page Top

#17 You do flatter me, SteveS! I just thought I'd give dear Mr. Omomoth Hatfield1094 the choice between the comfortably homely concepts he'd expect from hillbillies and the vocabulary I hear entirely too often at the dinner table.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-11-03 23:37|| 2011-11-03 23:37|| Front Page Top

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