"Our job is not to make up anybody’s mind, but to open minds, and to make the agony of decision-making so intense you can escape only by thinking."
- Fred W. Friendly (1915-1998)

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth will make you mad."
- Aldous Huxley

"If you have ever injected truth into politics, then you have no politics."
- Will Rogers

Sunday, March 10, 2013

The False Expectations of Tar Sand Oil

There are other costs to the "tar sands" oil reserves in addition to the fact that they are extremely expensive (the most expensive form of oil to date to make usable) and the simple fact that for the Keystone Pipeline -- most of that oil is being shipped across prime US agricultural land simply to get onto the world oil market. This TED Talk is worth listening to and thinking about:




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