On Monday, June 24, 2013 2:26:27 PM UTC-6, casa bona wrote:
> On 6/24/2013 2:00 PM, wrote:
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> > On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 10:32:30 -0600, casa bona > wrote:
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> >> On 6/24/2013 4:15 AM, wrote:
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> >>> On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 13:04:44 +1000, John J > wrote:
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> >>>> On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 20:18:27 -0300, wrote:
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> >>>>> On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 18:50:21 -0400, Dave Smith
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> >>>>> > wrote:
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> >>>>>> Just look around the world and see the countries that have been the most
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> >>>>>> successful..... the US, Canada, Australia, the better of the African and
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> >>>>>> Asian countries.
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> >>>>> The British Empire was certainly not all bad, better to have had that
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> >>>>> than some of the Portuguese/Spanish RC priestly invasions raping a
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> >>>>> country's wealth and keeping the natives poor, uneducated and
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> >>>>> pregnant.
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> >>>> Amazing how things have changed. Now the UK's a colony of the US
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> >>> I recall how scathing the US was after WWII about the British Empire
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> >>> falling and the English not having the wit to realise it, so now the
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> >>> US needs to look in the mirror ! May I say China ?
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> >> Didn't they go on a buying binge on Canada recently?
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> >> http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/stor...ooc-nexen.html
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> >> China's Nexen buy is Canada's elephant in the oil patch
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> > We have a conservative PM from Alberta - he believes the Tar Sands are
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> > clean.
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> He's never flown over ft. McMurray?
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> http://o.canada.com/2013/05/10/timel...gle-timelapse/

Its a wasteland...and there will be more of it as time goes on. How
else can one get the oil out of the sand but in most cases...mine it.