What's Not To Love About Tar And Sand?

Say. What's your opinion of the Keystone XL oil pipeline? You know, the pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, to refineries in Texas and Louisiana? The idea is to bring oil brought up from tar sands in Alberta Canada.. This stuff is like a thick goo of oil tar and sand. See, first they strip all the trees from a very very large area. Then the peal off all the top layers of earth until they get to this goo. Then they truck it to some point to remove the oil from the sand. Either that or they send hot, chemically laces water down wells to thin out the mix enough to pump it up. The thing is, it takes three barrels of water to produce one barrel of oil good enough to send down the pipeline. So now you've got these three barrels per one barrel. But the water has lots of toxic chemicals in it. What do you do with that much water, Because remember we're talking about millions of barrels of oil. So triple that amount. Canada's willing to sell us their oil, but what are they gonna do with this water? Do we get some of that too? Think we won't get any of it? Where do you suggest they store this polluted water? You got room in your swimming pool? The color is a little different that what you're accustomed to. But then you'd become a different color yourself if you use the pool;. What's that? You think they should keep that water for themselves? Where would you suggest they store it that wouldn't have it leaching into the goof old USA? Huh? You ask if there's a way to extract the pollutants from the water, thereby making it clean again? No! So does Canada have vast amounts of oil? Yes, Is it all in tar sands? No. Can we get this other oil? We already do. Why do we need this tar sands oil? Because we don;t want to invest in clean energy.