[AT] Now: Baaken oil Was: OT Gas prices new all time high :-(

[Ralph Goff]

On 3/9/2011 5:47 PM, Dan Folske wrote:
> Bakken oil may be thick compared to some crude but compared to the stuff
> from the older wells around here it is almost like diesel fuel. They haul a
> lot of it north into Canada and mix it with the tar sands oil on the main
> pipeline coming back south. I live on the edge of the Bakken and all I get
> is the traffic, dust, more fires and traffic accidents to respond to and
> difficulty hiring employees
> Dan
>
I've heard that the tar sands crude takes a lot of energy to convert 
into usable oil as it almost like the name implies, sand and tar. Takes 
a lot of heat to separate it.

Ralph in Sask.