Energy Independence? Oil Sands Key to Security & Jobs

Energy Citizens ^ | 5-7-11 | Energy Citizens

[WOBBLY BOB]

Increasing U.S. energy independence is a top priority for America's Energy Citizens, and leveraging Canada's reserves - which are rivaled only by Saudi Arabia's - is crucial to achieving this goal. A pivotal part of our energy mix? Developing Canada's oil sands resources - which will help fuel our domestic energy needs, and stimulate new jobs, with particularly big gains in Indiana and the Midwest.

[WOBBLY BOB]

State Department Environmental Study Backs Keystone Pipeline

http://energycitizens.org/EC/Community/energycitizens/b/weblog/archive/2011/04/25/state-department-environmental-study-backs-keystone-pipeline.aspx

support the pipeline:

http://energycitizens.org/ec/advocacy/composeletters.aspx?alertid=1159

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

What “Oil Sands” are there in the Midwest?

[WOBBLY BOB]

Canada...pipeline to MN ,etc.

[Liz]

....the Ovomitoms embedded in govt agencies, including Holder, are doing everything in their power to undermine the US and preventing us from using our own domestic sources.....

We keep being told that producing our vast energy resources in the US is an "environmental issue?" Baloney. Enviro issues are strictly agit-prop.

The stunning reality is that the US has vast reserves of energy ---- offshore oil, natural gas, coal. Oil companies have had tremendous success unlocking big quantities of natural gas from dense shale rock formations in North America. We're talking about TRILLIONS of barrels of oil equivalent in shale natural gas.

The US already gets a huge 25% of its oil needs from nearby Canada. This will increase in the near future b/c the red-hot center of the 21st century's gold rush is the western Canadian province of Alberta. Spread under 54,363 square miles of boreal forest -- a little less than the land area of Florida -- lie proven reserves of 174 billion barrels, second only to Saudi Arabia's.

What with engineering know-how, huge advances in technology, and the $$$$trillions to be made----a small $100 billion investment will get the Canadian reserves out of the ground in no time....

All of the energy we need----in our own backyard-----just down a country road, and over the bridge, from bucolic, peaceful New England.

ACTION NOW We need to alert the PTB that we are onto the gross manipulation by those who are colluding, who want the US to sink trillions in the Mideast......including war profiteers getting rich beyond Croesus with our tax dollars------and by Mideast countries too stupid to govern themselves without US "foreign aid."

"America is dependent on foreign oil" is a knee-jerk reaction, a bunch of propaganda.......The Big Lie which forced America into invading three ME countries at a cost of trillions of US tax dollars.

[WOBBLY BOB]

Recent elections in Canada mean if we get a president who doesn't hate petroleum products,we have a stable country to buy it from.

(we won't be funding *as many* of our enemies )

[353FMG]

“Increasing U.S. energy independence is a top priority....”

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How long have we been saying this? Even Reagan mentioned it, but nothing has been done about it.

Don’t expect that anything will be done about it anytime soon. This crowd in the WH rather gives our national resources away while getting deeper in debt with Islam.

[thackney]

We get 12~15% of our petroleum from Canada (~2,800 mbpd) not 25%.

[WOBBLY BOB]

Nixon gave us that great Dept. of Energy and Stevie Chu is on the case...so no worries.

[decimon]

The question not addressed is probably the most important: How much will this oil cost?

[TheOldLady]

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[Liz]

AS OF MAY 2011

[Liz]

[thackney]

Then your description is wrong. It is 25% of our imports. Our total oil need is greater than just our imports.

[dmzTahoe]

So, that chart shows 105% utilization of a barrel of oil.

Only the US Dept of Energy can perform at such an efficient level...

[WOBBLY BOB]

LOL...the model of efficiency.

[thackney]

So, that chart shows 105% utilization of a barrel of oil.

When a barrel of crude oil is refined in a modern refinery, there is growth in the number of barrels; ie more barrels comes out than goes in.

This is due to the heavier, more dense molecules are cracked into lighter smaller molecules that have more volume, although less BTU's per gallon.

http://eia.doe.gov/energyexplained/index.cfm?page=oil_refining#tab3