The oil from Canadian tar sands is seen by the uninformed as "good" oil, primarily because it is a friendly country and we don't have to extract it with thousands of American deaths in war.
However, as a recent study shows it is definitely not obtained without a price. We get to drive around in single-occupancy huge motor vehicles awhile longer, and the Canadians get some short-term money. However the long-term costs may be around for awhile, and could spread to the US if the Keystone pipeline is built across America's heartland and a major aquifer, so the oil can be put onto the much more lucrative world market.
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