Comments on: Don’t Buy It! Tar Sands Oil Still Dirty http://priceofoil.org/2008/04/29/dont-buy-it-tar-sands-oil-still-dirty/ Oil Change International campaigns to expose the true costs of oil and facilitate the coming transition towards clean energy. We are dedicated to identifying and overcoming political barriers to that transition. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:19:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Al Brocker http://priceofoil.org/2008/04/29/dont-buy-it-tar-sands-oil-still-dirty/#comment-339951 Al Brocker Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:09:13 +0000 http://priceofoil.org/?p=2665#comment-339951 Agree that the oil sands are filthy energy at best and they add to Canada's carbon emissions balance. Worse, most of the oil is sold to the US who are the most profligate wasters of oil in the world. (25% of the world's oil for less than 5% of the population). Bituminous oil: -pollutes water used in the process -uses relatively clean natural gas as part of the process (increasing the carbon footprint further) -devastates the land It should be abandoned. If you have to spend $25 million to defend it, you know something is wrong. Agree that the oil sands are filthy energy at best and they add to Canada’s carbon emissions balance. Worse, most of the oil is sold to the US who are the most profligate wasters of oil in the world. (25% of the world’s oil for less than 5% of the population).

Bituminous oil:
-pollutes water used in the process
-uses relatively clean natural gas as part of the process (increasing the carbon footprint further)
-devastates the land

It should be abandoned. If you have to spend $25 million to defend it, you know something is wrong.

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