Hi!

Canadian Tar Sands? It won't provide the oil that it is capable of, unless we switch to Alternative Energy. And, if we switch to Alternative Energy, we won't need the Tar Sands.

What am I talking about?

Currently, to change the Tar Sands into oil, we burn natural gas to do it. LOTS of natural gas. In fact, to convert all the Tar Sands to oil, would take ALL the natural gas in North America.

So, we provide a great new source of oil, but the price of natural gas will go through the roof, negating the savings we get from cheaper oil.

So, for the Tar Sands to be used, we need an Alternative Energy source, like wind/solar power to convert the sands.

We need to start an "Apollo" type program, to get Renewable Energy off the ground. Let's stop subsidizing oil, and subsidize Renewable Energy instead. It is clean, and it won't run out.

cliff
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