On 6/24/2013 8:16 PM, Roy wrote:
> 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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>>>>>>>> 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/
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> 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.
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No argument there.

Mine it, boil it, ship it.