Paul:
Agree with most of your statement, but the oil sands are not likely to help
the United States. From most of the news I have seen, the Chinese have been
busily buying up rights on the sands. So the next time you see a piece of
cheap Chinese plastic, you can look for a sticker that says "Country of
Origin - Canada, Manufactured in China".
AHHH, aren't the free trade agreements wonderful! Wonder if the new Canadian government will change any of that? No, wait, they're conservatives, so they will love free trade! But they will restrict guns and terrorists coming across the borders - but the Canadian's don't have guns...I'm so confused!!
George McKinney
Sr. Compression Engineer
Augusta Engineering & Design, Inc.
> Jan. 22, 2005(CBS) There’s an oil boom going on right now. Not in Saudi
> Arabia or Kuwait or any of those places, but 600 miles north of Montana.
>
> In Alberta, Canada, in a town called Fort McMurray where, this time of
> year, the temperature sometimes zooms up to zero.
>
> The oilmen up there aren’t digging holes in the sand and hoping for a
> spout. They’re digging up dirt — dirt that is saturated with oil.
> They’re called oil sands, and if you’ve never heard of them then you’re
> in for a big surprise because the reserves are so vast in the province
> of Alberta that they will help solve America’s energy needs for the next
> century.
>
> Within a few years, the oil sands are likely to become more important to
> the United States than all the oil that comes to us from Saudi Arabia.
>
> More at
> <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/20/60minutes/printable1225184.shtml">http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/20/60minutes/printable1225184.shtml</a>
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