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Canadian Oil Sands: Gates and Buffett Visit

Hey! What are all you "environmentally aware" folks doing here (esp. S.W.)? Permit me to add another piece or two. Like it, or not, we will continue to use fossil fuels for some time (God help us if the associated warming stops the Gulf Stream/Artic currents interactions). Any source that moves us from accommodating the ugly habits of several oil rich regimes is preferable. Anyone old enough to remember South Africa's bad habits?

Work on perspective - if the entire global system is taken into account, making a mess of a piece of n. Canada pales compared to scrambling the atmosphere/ocean circulation patterns. That would eliminate anything resembling a natural system in all of Canada. Of course, there would be lots of additional water available.

Alternatives to fossil fuels are inevitable, sooner or later we will run out. Sooner seems preferable. If there is a profit, then maybe someone will work on the problem for a profit. T.B. Pickens probably has a few motives that involve increasing his billions. (Maybe not, at his age he may be looking forward.) Who cares! He and A.Gore probably have different motives for their efforts re energy. Again, who cares. I hope both gain riches, or power, proportional to their success in triggering development of alternative energy sources.

I just met my grand kids. They're cute. Maybe we could avoid extinction so they can be around for a while.

BTW-mkreisel, I sincerely hope you are wrong.