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U.S. Oil Supply: Drilling Down to the Facts

Fred you ARE the leading academic energy economist in the world, and I am the best motorcycle racer in the world!! We deserve recognition.

Canadian Oil Sands: Gates and Buffett Visit

John Gordon's point is correct. I wonder why these article never mention the startling and immense environmental degradation that comes with oilsands crude production. Currently Ghawar in SA is pumped with about 6 million barrels of water to produce 4-5 million barrels of oil. That is NOTHING next to Oilsand production, which needs 2-5 barrels of water to produce one barrel of oil, and ALSO needs one barrel of energy to produce 2-4 barrels of oil. The waste water is worthless, unreclaimable, and is left in huge ponds, one of which is behind the largest earth dam in the world, thirteen miles long.