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FUEL * USA - Canada’s Oil Supply 2nd only to Saudi Arabia
USA -Life on the Road, by E. Phil Haley -15 October 2007: -- Canada is and, for the last 8 years, has been the number one supplier of oil to the U.S. market. Canadian imports represent 17 percent of U.S. imports and 11 percent of U.S. consumption... The Canadian Tar Sands project has been around for many, many years but its only during those times when crude oil prices are high that its operation is feasible. Having delivered equipment to the project in Ft. McMurray, Alberta, which has been intermittently operated since 1967, and having seen one of the newer centrifuges being delivered to the site from Edmonton (I couldn’t miss it; it was 300 feet in length, 30 feet in diameter and weighed in around 1,000,000 lbs.), I can tell you that this project is both massive in scope and incredibly labor and fuel intensive.... (Photo from dpatterson.blogspot.com Oil sands mining)Labels: alternative fuels
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