[Wonder Warthog]

"Let the Canadians drink their oil, we can turn coal into gas cheaper."

I VERY seriously doubt that. I'm familiar with both processes, and getting the oil from sands is a LOT simpler than gasification and Fischer-Tropsch.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Extracting oil from shale is fairly costly from what I’ve read.
I’d bet on oil sands being much cheaper.

In any case, I think Keystone got US government endorsement yesterday.