Yup. You get our raw synthetic crude and we get stuck with toxic  
tailing "ponds" and open pit mines so large you can see them from  
space.  The Syncrude Tailings Dam is a barrage dam that is, by volume  
of material, the largest dam in the world at 540,000,000 cubic  
meters, behind which is stored the toxin laden "waste" water used in  
the mining process. A cubic metre of oil, mined from the tar sands,  
needs two to 4.5 cubic metres of water.

For every barrel of synthetic oil produced in Alberta, more than 80  
kg of greenhouse gases are released[ into the atmosphere and between  
2,000 and 4,000 barrels (640 m�) of waste water are dumped into  
tailing ponds that have replaced about 50 km� of forest.

But don't worry, the Alberta Government is busy spending  
$25,000,000.00 to tell you how "clean" it all is.  They will probably  
double that amount if the ducks keep landing on and sinking into the  
tailing "ponds".

Stepping off my soapbox now.  Got a vanagon to work on.  Anyone tried  
rubber powered?
Know where I can get a big elastic band.

On 28-May-08, at 12:19 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> Date:    Wed, 28 May 2008 09:16:50 -0700
> From:    Bernie <berniej@GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: Gasoline
>
> I think Canada even exports oil. I know they do .
> scott
>
>
>
> Canada is the largest exporter of oil to the USA.
> Second to nobody!
>
> Bernie