[Vigilanteman]

There are no "comparable deposits" in the United States to Alberta's vast resources of tar sands. The closest thing are low grade coal deposits in the Dakotas and Montana and oil shale deposits on the eastern rim of the Rockies. Extraction technologies for both are far higher than for tar sands.

The one-two punch of developing tar sand extraction and fuel cell technology could give a knock-blow to the oil dictators of the world. So could military seizure of most strategic oil fields, which tend to be located in limited areas around the Gulf.

[Young Werther]

My nephew is a Chemical Engineer employed at the Dakota Coal Gasification plant in Beulah North Dakota. They produce nautral gas from lighnite (soft) coal and are also selling CO2 to Canada for tertiary oil recovery and Ammonia to fertilizer manufacturers.

In the early 80s the development of alternative energy sources was stymied by OPEC. Once they realized that their artificially high oil prices would stimulate alternative energy sources they lowered their price. Wind mills, coal gasification and other technologies were put on the shelf. Let's hope that VP Cheney can develope a comprehensive energy policy. Then we can tell OPEC what to do with their oil.

You know, the Athabaska Tars in Canada are a tremendous source of crude as are the Orinoco Tars of Venezuela. With a concerted industrial program for this hemisphere we could reshape the world, industrialize our neighbors to the south and solve a multitude of problems that confront us.

[Young Werther]

My nephew is a Chemical Engineer employed at the Dakota Coal Gasification plant in Beulah North Dakota. They produce nautral gas from lighnite (soft) coal and are also selling CO2 to Canada for tertiary oil recovery and Ammonia to fertilizer manufacturers.

In the early 80s the development of alternative energy sources was stymied by OPEC. Once they realized that their artificially high oil prices would stimulate alternative energy sources they lowered their price. Wind mills, coal gasification and other technologies were put on the shelf. Let's hope that VP Cheney can develope a comprehensive energy policy. Then we can tell OPEC what to do with their oil.

You know, the Athabaska Tars in Canada are a tremendous source of crude as are the Orinoco Tars of Venezuela. With a concerted industrial program for this hemisphere we could reshape the world, industrialize our neighbors to the south and solve a multitude of problems that confront us.

[willyone]

For what it's worth I have heard or read that there is a huge deposit of oil below the one that has and is being pumped in the L.A. Basin especially the Long Beach area. It is common to see oil wells in the backyards of homes in Orange County. Anyone else heard of this field? A large part of Southern and Ca. and the Bakersfield area have alot of oil. I believe the environmental weenies prevent it being pumped.