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Originally Posted by SebC
You could put the plant far away from the oil sands, and even with the transmission losses it would still be way better from an environmental and sustainability perspective than burning natural gas to produce oil!
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I am just curious how you would get the tar sands, or bitumen, depending on the method of extraction to the plant that is away from the oil sands.
Trucking? Do you have any idea how large scale some of these operations area and the numer of vehicles that would be required to do this? I am pretty sure that trucks burn diesel...
Pipeline? How are you going to heat this product in the pipeline? I am pretty sure that you would BURN NATURAL GAS.
Are you aware there is some companies that do transport the product to an offsite area? Do you know where their plants are? Montana.
So you take the resources from Canada and then give the profit to the States? Is that what you are advocating here? I am just wondering if you have actually done any sort of research before you make some of these suggestions.